Topic: 'Does it feel ok?' Research into Alexithymia

Was halfway through the survey and the website appears to have gone offline :(

bonus points for not asking for my email! I will try to complete the survey again in a little while.

yes, bonus points you didn't ask for my email!

I got confused, although I think you tried your best to make it clear. But sometimes I answered 5 when I meant 1 and vice versa. But after I discovered I did that, I used "back" to go back to the previous pages and change my answers.

I basically answered either 1 or 5, but I had a few 3's.

I didn't like the way you would rephrase the same question already asked. It was like.... "do you NOT like such and such" (rate 1-5) then five questions later you would rephrase it as "do you LIKE such and such" (rate 1-5). This was confusing to me. I think I know why you did that, but it did trip me up a bit.

Thanks @FermiParadox, I hope it worked the second time round...the site should normally also save your responses, so you can continue where you left off.

And as I said, it is anonymous and confidential, I am not interested in your personal details and I follow very strict international ethical research guidelines.

@DXS, thank you for your feedback.

I can see how that is confusing... I used scales that have been validated to measure what I want to measure, so I didn't draft any myself.
Thank you so much for going back and rectifying it, that will help a lot with my data.
The rephrasing is a way to check if people actually read the questions and don't just answer randomly...that way I (and other researchers) can easily detect non valid responses and discard them so that the collected data stays valid. It's called reverse scoring method.

Anyways, thank you both for taking the time to answer and comment.