Evaluation of Alcohol and Other Drug Use and the Influence of Social Desirability

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Zaldívar ◽  
A.M. Molina ◽  
F. López Ríos ◽  
J.M. García Montes
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Indirect Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs ◽  
Macandrew Alcoholism Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Direct Measures

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the evaluation of alcohol and other drug use by what has been called direct measures, that is, scales that include obvious or explicit items on consumption, indirect measures, composed of camouflaged or nonobvious items on consumption, and the social desirability construct. The following use and/or addiction scales were given to a sample of 506 university students of both sexes: the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), Addiction Acknowledgment Scale (AAS), CAGE Alcohol Questionnaire, Addiction Potential Scale (APS), MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale-Revised (MAC-R), and a self-report on alcohol and other drug use designed for this study. The relationships between these scales and the social desirability construct, measured with the Edwards Social Desirability Scale (DS) and the Paulhus Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) were also explored. Although the results do not allow us to arrive at a conclusion as to which scales are the most valid for evaluating the use of alcohol and other drugs, the data do show adequate convergent validity. The correlations found among the use and social desirability scales employed were negative and statistically significant.

The Relationship between Direct and Indirect Measures of Death Anxiety

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Handal ◽  
Ronald L. Peal ◽  
John G. Napoli ◽  
Harvey R. Austrin
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Indirect Measures ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Cutoff Scores ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Direct Measures

Using a multimethod, multilevel approach to assess death anxiety, this study investigated the relationship between direct measures, the relationship between indirect measures, the relationship between direct and indirect measures and the relationship between direct measures and the variables of age, social desirability and repression–sensitization (R-S) for males and females. Direct measures were significantly and meaningfully related to one another and to R-S; no significant relationship was found between any two indirect measures for either males or females; no consistently significant results were found between direct and indirect measures or between direct measures and age and social desirability for either males or females. Discussion focused on overreliance on statistically significant correlations to the neglect of predictive power; establishing cutoff scores for direct measures; establishing the reliability and validity of indirect measures.

Social-Desirability Responding in the Assessment of Social Skill and Anxiety

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 763-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Frisch
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Skill ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Behavioral Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Distress Scale ◽  
The Relationship

The present study examines the relationship between social-desirability responding and both self-report and behavioral measures of assertion, conversational skill, and social anxiety. With one exception (Conflict Resolution Inventory-Nonassertion Scale), behavioral and self-report measures of assertion were unrelated to the social-desirability response set. Global but not specific behavioral measures of conversational skill were confounded with social-desirability responding. Self-report (e.g., Social Avoidance and Distress Scale) but not behavioral measures of anxiety were correlated with social-desirability scores. The need to evaluate further the psychometric properties of cognitive-behavioral measures is discussed.

Relationship of Manifest Aggressiveness to Aggressive Word Associations

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 711-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell G. Geen ◽  
Robert George
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Habit Strength ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Word Associations ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Cue Words ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A self-report inventory made up of items from the Buss-Durkee manifest aggressiveness scales, the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, and the Masculinity-Femininity scale of the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey was administered to 72 men along with a test of verbal associations to aggressive and neutral cue words. The number of aggressive associations made to aggressive cue words was highly correlated with over-all manifest aggressiveness and with two of the aggressiveness subscales. The results were discussed in terms of the relationship of aggressiveness habit strength to verbal behavior.

The Relationship between Sexual Abuse and Drug Use: Findings from Houston's Safer Choices 2 Program

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Peters ◽  
Susan R. Tortolero ◽  
Robert C. Addy ◽  
Christine Markham ◽  
S. Liliana Escobar-Chaves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Alternative School ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
School Students ◽  
Alternative School Students ◽  
The Relationship

Self-report drug use data were collected from 282 female alternative school students surveyed through the Safer Choices 2 study in Houston, Texas. Data collection took place between October 2000 and March 2001 via audio-enabled laptop computers equipped with headphones. Logistic regression analyses indicated that sexual abuse history was significantly associated with lifetime use (OR = 1.9, p ≤ 0.05). While the relationships tested in this study are exploratory, they provide evidence for an important connection between sexual abuse and substance use among female alternative school students.

scholarly journals The Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17)

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Stöber
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
The Social ◽  
Job Application ◽  
Age Cohort

Summary: Four studies are presented investigating the convergent validity, discriminant validity, and relationship with age of the Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17). As to convergent validity, SDS-17 scores showed correlations between .52 and .85 with other measures of social desirability (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Lie Scale, Sets of Four Scale, Marlowe-Crowne Scale). Moreover, scores were highly sensitive to social-desirability-provoking instructions (job-application instruction). Finally, with respect to the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding, SDS-17 scores showed a unique correlation with impression management, but not with self-deception. As to discriminant validity, SDS-17 scores showed nonsignificant correlations with neuroticism, extraversion, psychoticism, and openness to experience, whereas there was some overlap with agreeableness and conscientiousness. With respect to relationship with age, the SDS-17 was administered in a sample stratified for age, with age ranging from 18 to 89 years. In all but the oldest age group, the SDS-17 showed substantial correlations with the Marlowe-Crowne Scale. The influence of age (cohort) on mean scores, however, was significantly smaller for the SDS-17 than for the Marlowe-Crowne Scale. In sum, results indicate that the SDS-17 is a reliable and valid measure of social desirability, suitable for adults of 18 to 80 years of age.

Clients' Need for Social Approval and Perceptions of Counseling Relationship and Outcomes

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry McNally ◽  
Robert Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
Counseling Relationship ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Counseling Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Process And Outcome ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Evaluation Inventory

The present study examined the relationship between clients' need for social approval and clients' ratings of counseling process and outcomes. A group of 52 junior high, secondary school, and college student counselees anonymously completed the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory and Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale at the conclusion of a second interview with a counselor. 2 wk. after termination of counseling the clients anonymously completed the Counseling Evaluation Inventory. Clients' scores on the Social Approval Scale were used to assign them to a high approval-need group or a low approval-need group. Ratings of counseling process and outcome made by the 2 groups showed clients with high need for social approval rated their counselors as more empathic and their counseling experiences as more satisfactory. Results suggest that clients' need for social approval should be controlled in research utilizing clients' ratings.

Varying Relationships between Adaption-Innovation and Social Desirability

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 1151-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Elder ◽  
Don C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
K Scale

This study examined the relationship between the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory (KAI) and two measures of social desirability. The social desirability measures were chosen because the first, the Defensiveness Scale ( K scale) on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), measures the conscious presentation of oneself in socially desirable terms while the second measure, the Edwards Social Desirability Scale, examines the unconscious presentation of oneself as being socially desirable. 104 undergraduates enrolled in general psychology classes at a middle-sized midwestern university participated. A significant positive correlation between scores on the Kirton and Edwards inventories and a nonsignificant positive correlation with the K scale were obtained. The former indicates that innovators unconsciously present themselves as being more socially desirable than adaptors while adaptors and innovators consciously present themselves as being socially desirable almost equally. These findings for the Edwards Social Desirability Scale are inconsistent with the past research on the relationship between Kirton's inventory and social desirability.

scholarly journals Social Networking in Adolescents: Time, Type and Motives of Using, Social Desirability and Communication Choices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Tremolada ◽  
Lucio Silingardi ◽  
Livia Taverna
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Communication Preferences ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Type

The evolution of digital media in adolescents has changed the patterns and motives of use and the impact on their communication choices in their social and family networks. The objectives of this study are to understand how peers communicate adopting a social network (SN) or by voice and their social desirability. After the informant consent signature, the adolescents completed a series of self-report questionnaires on the use of SN, on communication preferences, and on social desirability through online. Most of the adolescents belonged to the 17-19 age group (83.6%) and were female (68.9%). Adolescents spent more than 3 hours/day on Whatsapp and more than 2 hours/day on Instagram, while the use of Facebook was on average only 35 minutes/day. Females used digital media for longer than males. Adolescents aged 17-19 years choose more Facebook and voice modes compared to adolescents aged 14 and 16 years. The alternative modes of Whatsapp and voice were chosen more than the social networks in their communication strategies, especially for negative topics. Motives for use were, in addition to boredom, related to maintaining one's social sphere with peers. Some educative considerations were made based on these results.

scholarly journals Validating Three Common Self-Report Measures of Social Functioning: Implications for Autism Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Kaplan-Kahn ◽  
Natalie Russo ◽  
Grace Iarocci
Keyword(s):  
Social Functioning ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Diagnostic Feature ◽  
Social Responsiveness ◽  
Latent Constructs ◽  
Diagnostic Labels ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spectrum Condition

Social functioning difficulties are a core diagnostic feature of autism spectrum condition (ASC) and are commonly assessed in ASC research. Many measures have been created to assess the various dimensions of social functioning; thus, it is important to evaluate how each scale captures these latent constructs in order to integrate results from studies using different measures. The current brief report assessed the convergent validity (at the subscale level) of three commonly used social functioning scales in ASC research: The Autism Quotient, the Multidimensional Social Competence Scale, and the Social Responsiveness Scale. Amongst a sample of nonclinical adults, the scales showed robust convergent validity between theoretically related subscales, indicating sensitivity to variation in social functioning abilities across diagnostic labels.

A Convergent Validity Study of Six Jealousy Scales

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1143-1147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene W. Mathes ◽  
Petra M. Roter ◽  
Steven M. Joerger
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Validity Study ◽  
Item Format ◽  
Weak Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Two Measures

To determine the convergent validity of 6 measures of jealousy, these measures along with two measures of neuroticism, two measures of romantic love, and a measure of extraversion were factor analyzed. The factors identified were jealousy-neurosis, jealousy, extraversion, and romantic love. An examination of the item format of the three jealousy scales that loaded on the first factor indicated that they might be contaminated by the social desirability response set. An examination of the jealousy scales that loaded on the second factor showed convergence and a weak relationship with neuroticism and romantic love.

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