Social Desirability and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, the General Anxiety and Test Anxiety Scales

1967 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1119-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Suinn
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
General Anxiety ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

EVALUATION APPREHENSION, SOCIAL DESIRABILITY, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF TEST CORRELATIONS

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. Thomas ◽  
Judith A. Hall ◽  
Frederick D. Miller ◽  
Joseph R. Dewhirst ◽  
Gary Alan Fine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Evaluation Apprehension ◽  
Testing Situation ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Moderate Negative Correlation ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

This paper investigates the relationship between the concepts of social desirability and evaluation apprehension. The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale and the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale were administered to 63 Harvard and Radcliffe students. As predicted, there was a moderate negative correlation between social desirability and manifest anxiety in the (anonymous) high evaluation apprehension condition (r = −0.35, p = 0.05); and a substantially reduced correlation in the (anonymous) low evaluation apprehension condition (r = −0.04). Nonanonymous subjects also had a lower mean score on the Talyor Manifest Anxiety Scale than did anonymous subjects. The results demonstrate a link between evaluation apprehension and social desirability, and indicate the importance of the nature of the testing situation in clinical or applied settings.

Compulsivity, Manifest Anxiety, and Gullibility

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis H. Primavera ◽  
Sidney H. Hochman ◽  
William F. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Undergraduate Men

This study investigated the correlations among compulsivity, as measured by the Breskin Rigidity Test, anxiety, as measured by the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, and gullibility, measured by Forer's technique. Anxiety scores of 44 undergraduate men and 54 women correlated .52 with gullibility scores, replicating previous findings. Compulsivity scores correlated −.23 with anxiety scores and were not related to gullibility scores ( r = −.15). These results were contrary to expectation, since previous research had suggested that compulsivity indexed by other tests should be positively related to both anxiety and gullibility.

Some Correlates of Delinquency and Validity of Questionnaire Assessment Methods

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul W. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Random Order ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Personality Dimension ◽  
Discriminative Validity ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Questionnaire Assessment ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

A Delinquency Scale (Peterson, Quay, & Cameron, 1959), the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (Taylor, 1953), and the Gordon Personal Inventory (Gordon, 1956) were administered in random order to 609 Federal Reformatory residents. Several other test and demographic measures were obtained for each S from reformatory records. Product-moment intercorrelations among variables ( p = .01), defined those relationships statistically different from zero. The results failed to demonstrate a consistency, or invariance, with those relationships observed by Quay, Peterson, and Consalvi (1960). The data suggest that Psychopathy and Neuroticism, as measured by the Delinquency Scale, are not independent factors, and both appear, instead, to assess a personality dimension best described as the “acting-out neurotic.” The data also provide discriminative validity information for the various subscales of the Gordon Personal Inventory, substantiating Gordon's (1956) original construct labels.

scholarly journals PENGARUH PENKES MENGGUNAKAN METODE CERAMAH DAN LEAFLET TERHADAP TINGKAT KECEMASAN PRIMIGRAVIDA

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 110-118
Author(s):  
Admin ◽  
Yuli Suryanti
Keyword(s):  
Test Group ◽  
T Test ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Paired T Test ◽  
Quasi Experiment

Pendidikan kesehatan merupakan cara penyampaian informasi kesehatan yang mudah diterima oleh ibu hamil dengan berbagai media yang digunakan. Masalah emosional yang terjadi pada kehamilan trimester III adalah perasaan cemas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa pengaruh pendidikan kesehatan menggunakan metode cemarah dan leaflet terhadap tingkat kecemasan ibu hamil trimester III. Penelitian Quasi Experiment dengan pre-test dan post-test group sebanyak 48 responden dengan teknik Purposive Sampling. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengukur skala kecemasan Taylor Manifest Anxiety  Scale (TMAS). Analisis data menggunakan Paired T test dan Independen T test. Hasil penelitian di dapatkan ada perbedaan tingkat kecemasan ibu hamil trimester III sesudah diberikan pendidikan kesehatan dengan menggunakan metode ceramah dan leaflet dengan nilai p =0,000. Pendidikan kesehatan yang diberikan pada ibu hamil saat melakukan pelayanan antenatal terbukti mampu meningkatkan pengetahuan ibu hamil terhadap kehamilannya. Leaflet sangat efektif untuk menyampaikan pesan singkat dan padat media ini juga mudah dibawa dan disebarluaskan karena ukurannya lebih ringkas dan jumlah yang dibawa lebih banyak dari pada poster.

Emotionality, Repression-Sensitization, and Maladjustment

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (474) ◽  
pp. 399-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Personality Variable ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Personality Questionnaires ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Factor Dimension

Much of the current research on personality questionnaires has concerned itself with response style or bias related to “social desirability”, in which the first factor dimension of the M.M.P.I. is implicated (Edwards and Heathers, 1962). Stable personality differences have been detected between those who are placed high and low on this dimension as measured by a number of M.M.P.I. scales (e.g. Pt (Psychasthenia), K (Defensiveness), Taylor's MAS (Manifest Anxiety), Welsh's A (Anxiety) Scale—see Christie and Lindauer, 1963). However, a lack of integration has resulted from a failure to recognize that the same personality variable is being measured by scales of “social desirability”, “repression-sensitization”, or the tendency to deny or admit symptoms, and as well as “social desirability”, this factor has been identified as “general maladjustment or ego weakness” (Kassebaum, Couch and Slater, 1959), and “neuroticism” (Eysenck, 1962).

Smoking and Anxiety

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 941-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina G. Schneider ◽  
John P. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Periods Of Stress

460 of 1025 contacted individuals completed the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and a questionnaire on smoking behavior. The data indicated that smokers, as a group, scored higher on the anxiety scale than nonsmokers. No support for the notion of a significant correlation between amount of smoking and level of anxiety was obtained. Ss reported increases in smoking behavior during periods of stress but indicated that these increases were usually not maintained beyond the period of stress.

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