Removal of Social Desirability and Response Set Items from the Manifest Anxiety Scale

1968 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1189-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Suinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

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).

Confounding of the Repression-Sensitization Scale, Controlled for Social Desirability, with the IP at Anxiety Scale

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 1003-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne C. Highland
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Two Measures

The Repression-Sensitization Scale, in a version which was controlled for social desirability and acquiescence response set, and the IPAT Anxiety Scale were administered to 51 male and 48 female undergraduates. Previous research had shown that repression-sensitization, anxiety, and social desirability are highly intercorrelated. Removing social desirability from the R-S scale left a measure which was still strongly correlated with an anxiety scale, the two measures having 45% of the variance in common.

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.

Manifest anxiety, social desirability, or response set.

1963 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry E. Adams ◽  
Albert C. Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

A Third Comparison of Two Short-Form Derivatives of the Taylor MAS, Using Psychiatric Patients

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-498
Author(s):  
Edmund S. Howe
Keyword(s):  
Normal Control ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Derivatives Of

Earlier studies in this Journal failed to adduce convincing evidence that Christie and Budnitzsky's 20-item forced-choice anxiety scale reduces social desirability effects otherwise assumed to be present in Bendig's 20-item (True-False) version of Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Using 70 heterogeneous psychiatric patients as Ss, this research shows a correlation of .92 between test scores on the two scales, which value is significantly larger than twice observed for normal control Ss. Our earlier impressions remain unchanged.

Pilot Study of the Physiological Subscale of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1299-1304
Author(s):  
Steven W. Lee ◽  
Wayne C. Piersel
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Skin Temperature ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Single Subject Research ◽  
Manifest Anxiety

The physiological subscale of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was examined using a matched single-subject research design. As predicted, a high scorer on the physiological subscale had a significantly higher resting EMG and did not significantly recover as did the low scorer on the physiological subscale on EMG. Contradictory findings were observed on skin temperature measures. Findings are discussed relative to the scope and shortcomings of the investigation, and directions for research are suggested.

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