General Information:
*Note: The item was tested in German. This is an English translation of the original German wording.*
Question Text:
In the months leading up to the pandemic, were there any people with whom you occasionally found it stressful or difficult to be in contact?
[Gab es in den Monaten vor der Pandemie Personen, bei denen Sie den Kontakt gelegentlich als belastend oder schwierig empfunden haben?]
Answer Categories:
Open-ended answer [Offene Antwort]
Recommendations:
The results of the pretest do not indicate any problems with the questions, so they can be left in their current form.
Difficulty Probing
Findings for Question:
Testing objectives:
The aim of the cognitive pretest was to determine how easy or difficult it was for the participants to recall their relationships with people with whom they had lost contact during the pandemic.
Findings:
Questions 10 through 15 were asked only of the participant who had indicated in Question 9 that she had lost contact with someone during the COVID-19 pandemic (Participant 07). The participant answered all six questions and referred to the same person in each of them. When asked, Participant 07 explained that it had been “very easy” for her to recall her relationship with that person before and during the pandemic.
Question Topic:
Society & social affairs/ Relationships
Construct:
Relationships with lost contacts – retrospective
