Acquiescence and Social Desirability Response Sets and Some Personality Correlates

1967 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 691-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darhl M. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personality Correlates ◽  
Response Sets

A Measure of Individual Differences in Sex Stereotyping and Sex Discrimination: The “Macho” Scale

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne J. Villemez ◽  
John C. Touhey
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Sex Role Stereotyping ◽  
Personality Correlates

A personality measure of individual differences in sex-role stereotyping and sex discrimination was developed. The “Macho” scale fulfills satisfactory psychometric criteria of internal consistency and reliability, and the 28 items are controlled for social desirability. Personality correlates of macho include sex-role orientation among males, and authoritarianism, and the scale discriminates between criterion groups selected from different ethnic and educational subcultures. Research applications of the scale to experimental and correlational studies in personality, social psychology, and sociology are proposed.

Reconsidering Response Sets, Test-Taking Attitudes, Dissimulation, Self-Deception, and Social Desirability

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott P. Merydith ◽  
Fred H. Wallbrown
Keyword(s):  
Perturbation Theory ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Test Taking ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Response Sets ◽  
Personality Questionnaires ◽  
Empirical Keying

This paper provides a summary of an examination of three lines of personality research involving response sets, empirical keying, and social desirability. The roots of these respective constructs are traced from their origins in Wundt's laboratory through the classic works of Meehl and Hathaway and Edwards up to Cattell's current reconstructions which take the form of trait-view theory and perturbation theory. After a careful analysis of the research and theoretical formulations from these three areas, it is concluded that Cattell's (1986) perturbation theory not only provides the most comprehensive system for understanding how respondents systematically distort their responses on personality questionnaires but also provides a solid framework for multivariate studies designed to test and refine his formulations.

Measurement of Response Sets

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 907-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Hand
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Response Sets ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Test Behavior ◽  
Marker Variables

This report presents defensible procedures for measuring Acquiescence and Social Desirability along with scales to measure these variables. Such scales are only slightly related; each is related to both test and non-test behavior. Such scales should be useful: (1) as marker variables in personality research, (2) as “response set” controls when studying the predictive validity of content variance of inventories, and (3) as measures of reliable characteristics of individuals.

Contamination in Measures of Acquiescence and Social Desirability

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Hand ◽  
C. O. Brazzell
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Response Sets ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Single Response

The purpose of this paper was to report data which seem to indicate that many scales which have been proposed as measures of single response sets are actually complex scales measuring at least two independent dimensions of behavior.

Susceptibility of the Modernity Scale to Socially Desirable Response Sets

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary K. Leak
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Desirable Response ◽  
Response Sets ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Measures

The present study reports an assessment of the Edwards Social Desirability Scale Values for Gough's Modernity Scale, as well as scale correlates with two measures of tendencies to make socially desirable responses. Analysis of the Social Desirability Scale Values indicates that the Modernity Scale is not confounded with socially desirable responding. Further, scores on neither the Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability Scale nor the Edwards Social Desirability scale cotrelated significantly with those on the Modernity Scale.

Equivalence of Electronic and Off-Line Measures

2007 ◽  
pp. 97-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Measurement Equivalence ◽  
Psychometric Equivalence ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Response Sets ◽  
Paper And Pencil

This paper explores the measurement equivalence of paper-and pencil and electronic surveys and measures. After reviewing competing claims and the limitations of the research, there is a strong case that many measures do retain their psychometric equivalence across modes of administration with the exception of speeded tests and measures that may be subject to social desirability response sets.

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