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).

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.

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.

scholarly journals Detecting faking-good response style in personality questionnaires with four choice alternatives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merylin Monaro ◽  
Cristina Mazza ◽  
Marco Colasanti ◽  
Stefano Ferracuti ◽  
Graziella Orrù ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Faking Good ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Computer Mouse ◽  
Positive Impression Management ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

AbstractDeliberate attempts to portray oneself in an unrealistic manner are commonly encountered in the administration of personality questionnaires. The main aim of the present study was to explore whether mouse tracking temporal indicators and machine learning models could improve the detection of subjects implementing a faking-good response style when answering personality inventories with four choice alternatives, with and without time pressure. A total of 120 volunteers were randomly assigned to one of four experimental groups and asked to respond to the Virtuous Responding (VR) validity scale of the PPI-R and the Positive Impression Management (PIM) validity scale of the PAI via a computer mouse. A mixed design was implemented, and predictive models were calculated. The results showed that, on the PIM scale, faking-good participants were significantly slower in responding than honest respondents. Relative to VR items, PIM items are shorter in length and feature no negations. Accordingly, the PIM scale was found to be more sensitive in distinguishing between honest and faking-good respondents, demonstrating high classification accuracy (80–83%).

Manifest Anxiety: Unifactorial or Multifactorial Composition?

1965 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 773-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Fenz ◽  
Seymour Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Striated Muscle ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Autonomic Arousal ◽  
Specific Factor ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Personality Variable ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Differential Contribution

The study investigates three subscales of manifest anxiety, consisting of symptoms of striated muscle tension, symptoms of autonomic arousal, and feelings of fear and insecurity. There was both a general factor of anxiety and a specific factor associated with striated muscle tension. Further evidence for the specific nature of striated muscle tension was indicated by its positive relationship to feelings of hostility, its failure to relate to a personality variable of inhibition, and the relatively high score obtained by males. It was hypothesized that striated muscle tension is more closely associated with overt activity than autonomic symptoms, which represent a deeper level of inhibition. Discrepant results of studies using the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale may be due to a failure to take into account the differential contribution of items relating to different kinds of anxiety.

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