scholarly journals Can We Rely on Self-Assessments of Sense of Coherence? The Effects of Socially Desirable Responding on the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ) Responses

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Lajunen ◽  
Gaygısız
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
The Relationship

A large number of studies in health psychology have shown that sense of coherence (SOC) is an essential factor in wellbeing and health. SOC is most commonly measured with the Antonovsky’s Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ), which has been so far translated into at least 48 languages. Despite the vast popularity of the OLQ, the relationships between OLQ and socially desirable responding (impression management and self-deception) have not been studied. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the correlations between social desirability and Antonovsky’s OLQ. Method: The first sample consisted of 423 students who completed the 13-item OLQ and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), including the Lie scale. Also, the Balanced Inventory for Desirable Responding by Paulhus was administered together with the OLQ to 202 students. Results: SOC correlated positively with measures of social desirability among men but not among women. Hence, sex moderated the relationship between socially desirable responding and sense of coherence. Conclusions: Socially desirable responding and, especially, self-deception are positively related to high scores in SOC among men but not among women. The OLQ as a measure of sense of coherence can be used among women without worrying about the bias caused by socially desirable responding. When using the OLQ among men, the strong relationship between self-deception and sense of coherence should be taken into account.

Personality, situation, and positive–negative asymmetry in socially desirable responding

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjaana Lindeman ◽  
Markku Verkasalo
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Personal Ideals ◽  
Public Setting ◽  
Extreme Responses ◽  
Private Setting ◽  
Psychological Determinant

Based on previous research on socially desirable responding and positive—negative asymmetry, we hypothesized that (i) impression management is higher in public than in private settings, (ii) personal ideals linked to exemplification, ingratiation, and intimidation are related to an impression management tendency, (iii) negatively keyed social desirability items receive more extreme responses than positively keyed items, and (iv) self‐esteem is correlated higher with negatively than with positively keyed self‐deception items. Based on Jones and Pittman's (1982) model, exemplification, ingratiation, and intimidation are defined as impression management strategies that aim at presenting oneself as worthy, likable, or dangerous, respectively. Principally, the results obtained in a public setting (N=177) and a private setting (N= 165) support these hypotheses. The overall pattern of findings suggests that both context and personal ideals exert an influence on impression management scores, and that the keying direction of an item may be an important psychological determinant of a test response.

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.

Neuroticism and Sense of Coherence

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 343-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. Gibson ◽  
M. J. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
General Health ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Item Orientation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Health Questionnaires

The relationship of scores on sense of coherence with measures of personality traits was assessed using the 29-item Orientation to Life Questionnaire and the Eysenck Personality Inventory. In one group of 95 mixed-sex students scores on Neuroticism bore a highly negative relationship with scores on sense of coherence. Findings support the current literature that health questionnaires may indirectly measure Neuroticism and that personality variables play an important role in general health.

THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THREE ATTACHMENT STYLE MEASURES TO SOCIALLY DESIRABLE RESPONDING

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary K. Leak ◽  
Chad J. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Attachment Style Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the susceptibility of three popular measures of attachment styles to impression management (other-deception) and unconscious defensiveness (self-deception). Specifically, responses to the Attachment Style Questionnaire, Adult Attachment Scale, and the Relationship Questionnaire were correlated with the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding. Results indicate that all three measures are, to varying degrees, contaminated by impression management tendencies, while only the Relationship Questionnaire is free from a self-deceptive bias. These results have implications for interpreting responses to several frequently used measures of attachment styles, also for the theoretical issue of whether the avoidance attachment style is based on defensiveness.

Socially Desirable Responding and Offence Characteristics Among Rapists

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl G. Kroner ◽  
John R. Weekes
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
The Self ◽  
Socially Desirable Responding ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between socially desirable responding and offence characteristics is examined with 49 rapists. Socially desirable responding (SDR) was measured by the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding. Offence characteristics included: (a) perpetrator’s relationship to the victim; (b) severity of victim injury; and (c) victim’s age. Greater victim injury was associated with lower Impression Management (r = -.27, p<.03) and Denial scores (r = -.32, p<.01). No significant relationship occurred between offence characteristics and the self-deceptive scales of Denial of the Negative and Over Confident Rigidity. Alternative to the underreporting hypothesis, self-presentation and the acquisition of socially appropriate skills may explain the SDR/violence relationship.

scholarly journals Temperament and Sense of Coherence: Emotional Intelligence as a Mediator

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Szcześniak ◽  
Klaudia Strochalska
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Complex Traits ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Global Orientation ◽  
Potential Component ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Sense of coherence (SOC) reflects an individual’s capacity and available resources to deal with stressful situations. For some time now studies have revealed that people differ in their experience of SOC; yet, very little is known about how and through which mechanisms a high level of SOC is formed. In order to increase our understanding about the paths to a high SOC in the stage of adulthood, we focused on exploring the role both of temperament, as it has been confirmed as a potential component in the development of more complex traits that emerge later in life, and of emotional intelligence (EI) as it has been found to increase SOC. The sample consisted of 173 participants between 18 and 49. We used the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa and San Diego Autoquestionnaire (TEMPS-A), Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ), and Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (INTE). Results showed a negative correlation between the depressive, cyclothymic, irritable, and anxious dimensions of temperament and SOC, and EI. There was also a positive correlation between hyperthymic temperament and SOC, and EI. EI correlated positively with a general sense of coherence and its three dimensions. The PROCESS macro for SPSS showed that emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between depressive, cyclothymic, hyperthymic, irritable and anxious temperament, comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness, and global orientation to life. On the basis of the obtained outcomes, it can be stated that emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between dimensions of temperament and dimensions of SOC.

scholarly journals Hubungan Penerapan Good Corporate Governance (GCG) dengan Risiko Financial Perbankan

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Dita Maretha Rissi ◽  
Lisa Amelia Herman
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Correlation Method ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Good Corporate Governance ◽  
Rank Correlation Method ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
The Relationship

This research is a quantitative study. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the implementation of good corporate governance (GCG) and the financial risk of banking at Bank Nagari, starting from 2015-2019. In the principles of good corporate governance (GCG), there are principles of transparancy, accountability, responsibility, independence and fairness. This research is built on the belief that by implementing GCG in Bank Nagari, the Bank has a strong internal management and can automatically minimize financial risks that can harm Bank Nagari. The data collection methods used in this study were interviews and documentary studies conducted at the Compliance Work Unit and the Risk Management Division at Bank Nagari, Padang Head Office. The data obtained were analyzed using the Spearman Rank Correlation method. The results of this study indicate that there is a very strong relationship between the implementation of good corporate governance (GCG) and banking financial risk at Bank Nagari, where the implementation of good GCG principles is believed to strengthen the internal conditions of Bank Nagari effectively and efficiently as well as financial risk. minimized. In addition, the research results also show that the motivation of Bank Nagari in implementing GCG from 2015-2019 is getting better based on the results of self-assessments that are conducted annually.

scholarly journals The relationship between sense of coherence and goal setting

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Nel ◽  
Anne Crafford ◽  
Gert Roodt
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Canonical Correlation ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Management Consultants ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Item Orientation ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of Sense of Coherence and Goal Setting. A sample of 80 management consultants participated in the study. Confirmatory reliabilities of the dimensions used in the Goal Setting Questionnaire (independent variable) and Sense of Coherence 29 item Orientation to Life Questionnaire (dependent variable), ranged from 0,54 to 0,97. A canonical correlation of 0,569 (DF = 39; p = 0,021) was obtained between the dimensions of these two questionnaires. Opsomming Die doelwit van hierdie studie was om die verband tussen die dimensies van Koherensiesin en Doelstelling vas te stel. ’n Steekproef van 80 bestuurskonsultante het aan die studie deelgeneem. Bevestigende betroubaarhede van die dimensies van die Doelstellingsvraelys (onafhanklike veranderlike) en die 29 item Lewensoriëntasievraelys (afhanklike veranderlike), het gewissel van 0,54 tot 0,97. ’n Kanoniese korrelasie van 0,569 (gv = 39; p = 0,021) is verkry tussen die dimensies van die twee vraelyste.

scholarly journals Job stress, sense of coherence and work wellness in an electricity supply organisation

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Rothmann ◽  
L. J. Steyn ◽  
K. Mostert
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Electricity Supply ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of this study was to test a causal model of work wellness for engineers, technicians and electricians in an electricity supply organisation. An ex post facto correlational design was used. The participants included 38 engineers, 86 technicians and 91 electricians in an electricity supply organisation. The Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Survey, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, the Job Stress Inventory and the Orientation to Life Questionnaire were administered. The results showed that job stress, because of job demands and a lack of support, leads to burnout. A strong sense of coherence mediated the relationship between job stress and work wellness (consisting of low burnout and high work engagement).The material described in this article is based upon work supported by the National Research Foundation under Grant number 2053344.

The Two Components of Social Desirability and their Relations to Resting Frontal Brain Asymmetry

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia A. Pauls ◽  
Jan Wacker ◽  
Nicolas W. Crost
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Hemispheric Asymmetry ◽  
Incentive Motivation ◽  
Blink Rate ◽  
Frontal Brain ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Α Band

Abstract. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between resting frontal hemispheric asymmetry (FHA) in the low α band (8-10.25 Hz) and the two components of socially desirable responding, i.e., self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) and impression management (IM), in an opposite-sex encounter. In addition, Big Five facets, self-reports of emotion, and spontaneous eye blink rate (BR), a noninvasive indicator of functional dopamine activity, were assessed. SDE as well as IM were related to relatively greater right-than-left activity in the low α band (i.e., relative left frontal activation; LFA) and to self-reported positive affect (PA), but only SDE was related to BR. We hypothesized that two independent types of motivational approach tendencies underlie individual differences in FHA and PA: affiliative motivation represented by IM and agentic incentive motivation represented by SDE. Whereas the relationship between SDE and PA was mediated by BR, the relationship between SDE and FHA was not.

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