The present study employed a cross-sectional design using a self-administrative structured questionnaire that was completed by the respondents in November 2009.
As congregations continued to form during Russell's ministry, they each remained self-administrative, functioning under the congregationalist style of church governance.
We used the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2), a paper-and-pencil self-administrative test of moral judgment derived from Kohlberg's theory [16].
These participants also answered a similar self-administrative semi-structured questionnaire.
Respective orders are legally covered by the self-administrative rights "Eigenvollzugskompetenz" of the German Armed Forces Medical Service regarding infectious disease prevention and control "Infektionsschutz".
By contrast, assessing personality stability in self-administrative assessment procedures may well overestimate the true stability of such self-report ratings.
After obtaining informed consent, the surveys were administered by self-administrative semi-structured questionnaires to assess the CHWs' socio-economic characteristics, working style, job satisfaction and health knowledge.
In a longitudinal comparison, we demonstrated the measurement invariance of the Big Five personality factor structure across two measurement occasions for the face-to-face interviewing and for the self-administrative conditions of assessment.
According to our findings, the robustness of a widely applied short Big Five Inventory (BFS S) generalizes across face-to-face interviewing and self-administrative procedures but does not generalize to phone surveys.
Health and lifestyle information, including medical history, age at menopause, smoking habits, alcohol and coffee consumption, physical activity and mobility, calcium and vitamin D intakes, and fracture history was collected at study baseline in 1997 using self-administrative questionnaires and interviews.
