Measurement Instruments in the GESIS Panel (MISS Article Collection)

Article Collection Editors: Bernd Weiß (GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), Matthias Bluemke, (GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany), Elmar Schlüter (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany).

The GESIS Panel is a treasure chest of measurement instruments. Some of these instruments were exclusively developed to be used in the GESIS Panel, whereas others represent established instruments that have been translated or adapted for the GESIS Panel, e.g, to replicate previous findings. This article collection aims at bringing together original studies from scholars of a diverse research community to address questions that include, but are not limited to, the secondary analysis of GESIS Panel data for:

• Documentation and proper psychometric evaluation of item collections in previous GESIS Panel waves that can serve as instruments in the future
• Documentation and proper psychometric evaluation of new collections of items in the GESIS Panel that can serve as new instruments in the future
• Replication studies on the quality of already established measurement instruments based on their assessment in the GESIS Panel
• Evaluation of new translations or international adaptations of measurement instruments taken from previous GESIS Panel waves, e.g. on the basis of authors’ own/independent data collections
• Advances in methodology, exemplified with data from the GESIS Panel