Coping, Defense and Socially Desirable Responses

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 985-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry A. Alker
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Strategic Capacity ◽  
Defensive Behaviors ◽  
The Social

Coping and defensive behaviors, assessed by intensive interviews, covary, respectively, with the presence of socially desirable and socially undesirable inventory responses. Minimizing the influence of the social desirability variable consequently interferes with the strategic capacity of inventory items to index coping and defense. Furthermore, using low social-desirability scale value items most effectively discriminates between genuine and defensively distorted inventory responses. Neutral items are less efficient in this connection even though they minimize socially desirable responding.

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.

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.

Instructional Set and Social Desirability Scale Values

1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Instructional Set ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personality Item

Instructional set affects endorsement of personality items, but its effect on the social desirability scale values (SDSV) of such items is unknown. The results suggest that probability of endorsement of a personality item may be altered in response to the influence of set upon perceived SDSV of trait items.

scholarly journals The Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17)

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Stöber
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
The Social ◽  
Job Application ◽  
Age Cohort

Summary: Four studies are presented investigating the convergent validity, discriminant validity, and relationship with age of the Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17). As to convergent validity, SDS-17 scores showed correlations between .52 and .85 with other measures of social desirability (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Lie Scale, Sets of Four Scale, Marlowe-Crowne Scale). Moreover, scores were highly sensitive to social-desirability-provoking instructions (job-application instruction). Finally, with respect to the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding, SDS-17 scores showed a unique correlation with impression management, but not with self-deception. As to discriminant validity, SDS-17 scores showed nonsignificant correlations with neuroticism, extraversion, psychoticism, and openness to experience, whereas there was some overlap with agreeableness and conscientiousness. With respect to relationship with age, the SDS-17 was administered in a sample stratified for age, with age ranging from 18 to 89 years. In all but the oldest age group, the SDS-17 showed substantial correlations with the Marlowe-Crowne Scale. The influence of age (cohort) on mean scores, however, was significantly smaller for the SDS-17 than for the Marlowe-Crowne Scale. In sum, results indicate that the SDS-17 is a reliable and valid measure of social desirability, suitable for adults of 18 to 80 years of age.

Further Evidence regarding the R Scale of the MMPI as a Measure of Acquiescence

1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 903-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen L. Edwards ◽  
Robert D. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
True Response ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mean

High- and low-scoring groups on the R scale of the MMPI were selected For each group the mean probability of a True response, P(T), on 26 scales was obtained. The social desirability scale values of the items increased from scale to scale. On all 26 scales, low scorers on the R scale had a higher mean probability of a True response than high scorers. The regression lines of P(T) on SDSV for the two groups had approximately the same slopes and differed only in terms of their intercepts. The study was replicated with three additional samples and comparable results were obtained in each case.

Adequacy of Socialization as an Interpretation of the Social Desirability Response Set

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 887-892
Author(s):  
James A. Oakland
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
Assessment Research

An interpretation of the social desirability response set as measuring, in part, the adequacy of socialization was supported in that the social desirability ratings of the 26 Ss with low scores on the Edwards Social Desirability Scale tended to be more varied than those of 26 Ss with high scores. It was suggested that this factor may be significant in the interpretation of individual personality test scores, that cross-fertilization between clinical theories and personality assessment research may be indispensible in this area, and that previous arguments for using ratings of social desirability as a means of personality assessment should be taken more seriously.

ATTITUDE, DESIRE, AND FREQUENCY OF EXTRAMARITAL INVOLVEMENT AS CORRELATED WITH SUBJECT CHARACTERISTICS

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Andrus ◽  
David Redfering ◽  
Jerry Oglesby
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
College Major ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Sexual Involvement ◽  
The Social

A study of desire for, frequency of, and attitudes towards extramarital involvement (EMI) was conducted, using 100 male and female college students ranging in age from 19 to 55. Demographic data gathered on subjects included age, sex, occupation, college major, current and past marital status and number of children, frequency of extramarital sexual involvement, and level of desire for extramarital sexual involvement. The subjects were administered a social desirability scale, a measure of conventional morality, and extramarital attitudinal scale. There were significant correlations between desire, frequency, and attitude. The response to “number of times married” had a significant effect on EMI desire. Predictive factors other than desire, frequency, and attitude were number of marriages, sex of the respondent, and the social desirability scale.

Social Desirability and Judged Frequency of Occurrence: Reanalysis and Comment on Bernhardson and Fisher

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 1271-1274
Author(s):  
Robert D. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Probability Of Occurrence ◽  
Direct Contribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common

The conclusions of Bernhardson and Fisher regarding the “direct contribution” of the social desirability scale value and judged probability of occurrence in the population to the prediction of the proportion of respondents answering True to personality items were re-examined basing new estimates of “direct contribution” upon multiple regression model comparisons which emphasize the common “contribution” between the judged probability of occurrence and social desirability and are not influenced by the ordering of variables in the regression equation.

Clients' Need for Social Approval and Perceptions of Counseling Relationship and Outcomes

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry McNally ◽  
Robert Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
Counseling Relationship ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Counseling Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Process And Outcome ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Evaluation Inventory

The present study examined the relationship between clients' need for social approval and clients' ratings of counseling process and outcomes. A group of 52 junior high, secondary school, and college student counselees anonymously completed the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory and Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale at the conclusion of a second interview with a counselor. 2 wk. after termination of counseling the clients anonymously completed the Counseling Evaluation Inventory. Clients' scores on the Social Approval Scale were used to assign them to a high approval-need group or a low approval-need group. Ratings of counseling process and outcome made by the 2 groups showed clients with high need for social approval rated their counselors as more empathic and their counseling experiences as more satisfactory. Results suggest that clients' need for social approval should be controlled in research utilizing clients' ratings.

Varying Relationships between Adaption-Innovation and Social Desirability

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 1151-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Elder ◽  
Don C. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Midwestern University ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
K Scale

This study examined the relationship between the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory (KAI) and two measures of social desirability. The social desirability measures were chosen because the first, the Defensiveness Scale ( K scale) on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), measures the conscious presentation of oneself in socially desirable terms while the second measure, the Edwards Social Desirability Scale, examines the unconscious presentation of oneself as being socially desirable. 104 undergraduates enrolled in general psychology classes at a middle-sized midwestern university participated. A significant positive correlation between scores on the Kirton and Edwards inventories and a nonsignificant positive correlation with the K scale were obtained. The former indicates that innovators unconsciously present themselves as being more socially desirable than adaptors while adaptors and innovators consciously present themselves as being socially desirable almost equally. These findings for the Edwards Social Desirability Scale are inconsistent with the past research on the relationship between Kirton's inventory and social desirability.

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