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.

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.

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.

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.

scholarly journals The citizenship and its relationship with the social responsibility among physical education teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
M. Kenioua
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Middle Schools ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Secondary Stage ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose: The study aimed to know the level of citizenship and the level of social responsibility among the teachers of physical education and examine the relationship between the citizenship and the social responsibility. Material: The participants were 49 physical educations teachers’ (male) from middle schools. The citizenship and the social responsibility scales were used as search tools. Results: the level of citizenship and social responsibility is high among teachers of physical education, and there is a positive correlation between citizenship and social responsibility. Conclusion: To enrich the results of this study it is better to do other studies in the future, such as a comparative study on citizenship among teachers of physical education in the middle and secondary stage, a study on citizenship and its relationship to cultural and social background.

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.

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.

Young children’s arithmetic strategies in social context: How parents contribute to children’s strategy development while playing games

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Bjorklund ◽  
Martha J. Hubertz ◽  
Andrea C. Reubens
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Simple Arithmetic ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Math Problems

We examined the relationship between parents’ behaviour and children’s use of simple arithmetic strategies while playing a board game in contrast to solving arithmetic problems. In a microgenetic study spanning 3 weeks, 5-year-old children who were just beginning kindergarten played a modified game of “Chutes and Ladders” with one of their parents, computing their moves from the throw of dice. Children also solved math problems (math context) given to them by their parents at the end of each session. Children’s arithmetic strategies and a variety of parental behaviours (prompt, prompt after error, affirmation, disaffirmation, cognitive directives, provide answer) were coded for children’s game moves and the math context. As in past research, children used multiple and variable strategies, both when computing their moves during the game and in solving the math problems. Parents displayed different patterns of behaviours during the game and math contexts and showed different relationships among behaviours and strategies as a function of context, reflecting their sensitivity to the cognitive demands on their children of the different tasks. The results were interpreted in terms of the need to integrate contemporary strategy development theory with a sociocultural perspective and to recognise the dynamic nature of parent–child interactions with respect to the social construction of cognitive strategies.

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.

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