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.

Relation of Holtzman Scores to Rigidity

1971 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 1003-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline H. Kidd ◽  
Robert M. Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Projective Tests ◽  
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Inkblot Test ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

The Sanford-Gough Rigidity Test, the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, a group Holtzman Inkblot Test, and an experimenter-designed Perceptual Rigidity test were given to 116 college girls to investigate determinants of responses to projective tests and to clarify the relationship between personality and perception. Significant positive correlations between the rigidity measure, the Sanford-Gough, and the Holtzman Location, Anatomy, and Hostility scales were obtained and a similarity between these results and descriptions of the authoritarian personality was noted. Significant negative correlations between the rigidity measure and the Holtzman Color and Movement scales were found. The lack of significant correlations between the rigidity measure and the Taylor and the Holtzman Anxiety scales was considered in terms of specific needs of further research into the relation of anxiety to perceptual rigidity.

Influence of Social-Desirability Responding on the Sarason Test Anxiety Scale: Implications for Selection of Subjects

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk R. Blankstein ◽  
Brenda B. Toner
Keyword(s):  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Social Desirability Bias ◽  
Significant Relation ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The relationship between the concepts of social desirability and test anxiety as assessed by Sarason's Test Anxiety Scale was examined. Sarason's scale and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale were administered to 137 women and 62 men under nonanonymous evaluative conditions. Although high social-desirability respondents reported lower levels of test anxiety, the correlation was significant for women only. It was concluded that the Test Anxiety Scale is not seriously compromised by social desirability bias. However, the meanings and implications of the significant relation were further explored by considering two-factor interpretations of social desirability. The use of the Marlowe-Crowne scale to identify defensive subjects low in test anxiety was examined. Approximately 30% of potential low-anxious subjects were classified as defensive low-anxiety subjects. The results suggest that the Marlowe-Crowne scale may be used in research to differentiate genuine from defensive low test-anxious subjects.

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.

Relationship of Manifest Aggressiveness to Aggressive Word Associations

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 711-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell G. Geen ◽  
Robert George
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Habit Strength ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Word Associations ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Cue Words ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

A self-report inventory made up of items from the Buss-Durkee manifest aggressiveness scales, the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, and the Masculinity-Femininity scale of the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey was administered to 72 men along with a test of verbal associations to aggressive and neutral cue words. The number of aggressive associations made to aggressive cue words was highly correlated with over-all manifest aggressiveness and with two of the aggressiveness subscales. The results were discussed in terms of the relationship of aggressiveness habit strength to verbal behavior.

Death Anxiety and Social Desirability among Nurses

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Scale Factors ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Principal Axes

Registered nurses ( n = 210) from Canadian public general hospitals were administered Templer's Death Anxiety Scale and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Responses on the Death Anxiety Scale were subjected to a principal-axes factor analysis, from which were extracted five factors. In the order of their relative prominence for the sample of nurses, the identified factors were: 1) “death anxiety denial,” 2) “general death anxiety,” 3) “fearful anticipation of death,” 4) “physical death fear,” and 5) “fear of catastrophic death.” Correlation analyses indicated a statistically significant inverse relationship between the variable of social desirability and “death anxiety denial”; however, no other statistically significant relationships were found to exist between the social desirability variable and the remaining four Death Anxiety Scale factors. The inverse relationship between a particular aspect of death anxiety and the response set of social desirability for nurses in this study was discussed in light of corroborative findings by other investigators, as well as in terms of its implications for further studies of death anxiety among health professionals.

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).

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