The Role of Conscientiousness and Warnings in Inattentive Respondents to Online Surveys

Conscientiousness plays a significant role in identifying inattentive online survey respondents. Attentive respondents, or ‘Workers” as they are called in this study, had significantly higher Conscientiousness scores than ‘Shirkers’, or inattentive respondents. Also, a warning was not found to play a role in changing a ‘Shirker’ to a ‘Worker’.