The Effects of Cognitive Busyness on Socially Desirable Responding

Coping and defensive behaviors, assessed by intensive interviews, covary, respectively, with the presence of socially desirable and socially undesirable inventory responses. Minimizing the influence of the social desirability variable consequently interferes with the strategic capacity of inventory items to index coping and defense. Furthermore, using low social-desirability scale value items most effectively discriminates between genuine and defensively distorted inventory responses. Neutral items are less efficient in this connection even though they minimize socially desirable responding.

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Socially Desirable Responding

Cross-Cultural Research ◽

10.1177/1069397114552781 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 227-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Jia He ◽

Fons J. R. van de Vijver ◽

Alejandra Dominguez Espinosa ◽

Amina Abubakar ◽

Radosveta Dimitrova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Socially Desirable Responding

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Religious-Commitment Signaling and Impression Management amongst Pentecostals: Relationships to Salivary Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase

Journal of Cognition and Culture ◽

10.1163/15685373-12342152 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 15 (3-4) ◽

pp. 299-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Christopher Dana Lynn ◽

Jason Joseph Paris ◽

Cheryl Anne Frye ◽

Lawrence M. Schell

Keyword(s):

Impression Management ◽

Religious Commitment ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychosocial Health ◽

Alpha Amylase ◽

Socially Desirable Responding ◽

Biological Stress ◽

Communal Orientation ◽

Willingness To Cooperate

Religious-commitment signaling is thought to indicate willingness to cooperate with a religious group. It follows that a desire to signal affiliation and reap concomitant benefits would lend itself to acting in socially desirable ways. Success or failure in such areas, especially where there is conscious intent, should correspond to proximal indicators of well-being, such as psychosocial or biological stress. To test this model, we assessed religious-commitment signaling and socially desirable responding among a sample of Pentecostals with respect to salivary biomarkers of stress and arousal. Results indicate that cortisol levels on worship and non-worship days were significantly influenced by religious-commitment signaling when moderated by impression management, a conscious form of socially desirable responding. No significant influences on salivary alpha-amylase were detected. These findings are important for understanding how religious-commitment signaling mechanisms may influence stress response when moderated by socially desirable responding and the role of communal orientation to psychosocial health.

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Personality, situation, and positive–negative asymmetry in socially desirable responding

European Journal of Personality ◽

10.1002/per.2410090206 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 125-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Marjaana Lindeman ◽

Markku Verkasalo

Keyword(s):

Impression Management ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Socially Desirable Responding ◽

Personal Ideals ◽

Public Setting ◽

Extreme Responses ◽

Private Setting ◽

Psychological Determinant

Based on previous research on socially desirable responding and positive—negative asymmetry, we hypothesized that (i) impression management is higher in public than in private settings, (ii) personal ideals linked to exemplification, ingratiation, and intimidation are related to an impression management tendency, (iii) negatively keyed social desirability items receive more extreme responses than positively keyed items, and (iv) self‐esteem is correlated higher with negatively than with positively keyed self‐deception items. Based on Jones and Pittman's (1982) model, exemplification, ingratiation, and intimidation are defined as impression management strategies that aim at presenting oneself as worthy, likable, or dangerous, respectively. Principally, the results obtained in a public setting (N=177) and a private setting (N= 165) support these hypotheses. The overall pattern of findings suggests that both context and personal ideals exert an influence on impression management scores, and that the keying direction of an item may be an important psychological determinant of a test response.

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