Date of Award

Fall 9-2020

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor Degree

Department

Political Science

First Advisor

Ridvan Peshkopia

Language

Albanian

Abstract

Bearing in mind that the role of personality traits and their impact unto the Interview Time Length in Cellphone Public Opinion Surveys hasn’t had the opportunity to be explored to further levels, despite different researches being conducted in order to attest the link that those two have, we considered that there is room for improvement and furthermore tried to shed some more light in this specific prism, specifically argue that they link and the different personality traits of Respondents and Interviewers do impact the Time Length of digitally taken Interviews. On our continous efforts to further explain the impact that the Personality Traits have on Interview Time Length, we conducted interviews with Respondents and Interviewers both from Albania and Kosovo, build a numerous ordered probit models using as key independent variables all of the Big Five Personality Traits, namely Openness, Consciousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism, in regards to the dependent variable which was the Interview Time Length. After having had conducted the relevant analysis, we found empirical evidence that all of the Big Five personality traits, namely Openess, Consciousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism do impact the duration of an interview, respectively the Interview Time Length. From all of them, Openess and Consciousness tend to positively impact it whereas the traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism have a negative impact on the Interview Time Length. We tested our hypotheses with a probability simple sample of public opinion data gathered in Albania and Kosovo in 2019/2020.

DOI

10.33107/ubt-etd.2020.2343

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