Questionnaire for the poll in the study "Information Scientists' Motivations for Research Data Sharing and Reuse"
Creators: name: Shutsko, Aliaksandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: research data
data sharing
data reuse
motivations
gratifications
information science
poll
questionnaire

description: This is the questionnaire developed for the poll in the study “Information Scientists’ Motivations for Research Data Sharing and Reuse”. A small poll was started at the end of each interview. Since the primary focus of the study was on motives and gratifications of researchers to share and reuse research data, a poll of four questions was based on previous findings in the fields of the Uses and Gratifications Theory (U&amp;GT) and the Self-Determination Theory (SDT). The attached document consists of three tables. In Table 1, questions and response options are presented. First, two questions regarding the sharing of research data are asked. The first question includes a list of sought gratifications. The second question covers possible motivations in terms of the SDT. Since it was expected that most of the study participants did not share or reuse any research data but also for time considerations, a separate question dedicated to obtained gratifications is not included. Also, due to technical reasons, it was not possible to apply the Likert scale for responses in the study. Participants were allowed to select as many options as needed, i.e. all questions are multiselect. In lines with Gagné et al. (2015), the questions are formulated using both past and conditional tenses in order to capture not only actual but also potential, or latent, motives and gratifications. This additionally enables to cover the motives of those interviewees who have not yet shared or reused research data. E.g., “For what reasons have you shared or would you share your research data with third parties?” Following the questions on research data sharing, analogous questions regarding data reuse were asked. Table 2 presents classification of response options used to study uses and gratifications (sought) of research data sharing and reuse. The categories were adapted from previous research. Along with the categories most widely used in the U&amp;GT research such as information (seeking), social interaction/socialization, self-esteem/self-promotion and entertainment, some categories specific to research data sharing and reuse were added. Cozma and Dimitrova (2021) identified the category of research support which is interrelated with the category of information, but is specific for studies on the use of data sharing media among academics. Further on, the categories of teaching support, society support and politics support were added to the list of items based on the findings from Zuiderwijk et al. (2020), Gregory et al. (2020), Fecher et al. (2015) and Kim (2021). Table 3 presents classification of response options used to study researchers’ motivation to share and reuse research data. The items are presented in comparison with two other motivation scales applying the SDT construct. They were adapted from the following validated scales: 1) the Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale (MWMS) developed by Gagné et al. (2015) and 2) the scale by Ohly and Schneijderberg (2021) which is an adaptation of the MWMS assessing German professors’ motivation to act as peer reviewers in accreditation and evaluation procedures. The items from both scales were modified to fit the context of this study. As a basis for adapted formulations, the work by Zuiderwijk et al. (2020) was used for inspiration. Furthermore, due to time concerns, not all items were reused to shorten the scale. The stem question was formulated based on the scale by Fernet et al. (2008) which follows a more traditional way of asking study participants “why do you do” a specific activity (i.e., data sharing or reuse) instead of asking “why do you put effort” into the job in general as introduced in the MWMS. So, whereas Gagne et al. (2015) in their scale “assess work motivation at the domain level of analysis”, the stem question in the scale by Fernet et al. (2008) measures work motivation for different tasks within a particular job which is more suitable for this study because data sharing and reuse are the tasks which form only a part of researchers’ work and are mostly not obligatory for researchers.
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