The Role of Social-Desirability Response Bias in Turnover Research

A meta-analysis of 143 studies was conducted to explore how the social desirability response bias may influence sex effects on ratings on measures of ethical decision-making. Women rated themselves as more ethical than did men; however, this sex effect on ethical decision-making was no longer significant when social desirability response bias was controlled. The indirect questioning approach was compared with the direct measurement approach for effectiveness in controlling social desirability response bias. The indirect questioning approach was found to be more effective.

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Social Desirability Response Bias in Self-Report Choice Situations

Academy of Management Journal ◽

10.5465/255848 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 377-385 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Hugh J. Arnold ◽

Daniel C. Feldman

Keyword(s):

Response Bias ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Self Report ◽

Social Desirability Response Bias

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Social Desirability Response Bias and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1988.63.1.227 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 227-237 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Rebecca Ballard ◽

Michael D. Crino ◽

Stephen Rubenfeld

Keyword(s):

Response Bias ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Social Desirability Scale ◽

Social Desirability Response Bias ◽

Continued Use ◽

The Individual

The reported studies investigated two issues of importance to researchers and practitioners interested in the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, the sensitivity or social desirability of the individual items comprising the scale and the continued appropriateness of the original scoring scheme presented in 1960. Analysis indicates that over half of the items may no longer be sensitive enough to be useful. Also, it appears that the original keying may no longer be appropriate for a number of items. Finally, based on these findings, implications for the continued use of the Marlowe-Crowne Scale are discussed.

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Online sexual addiction among adult males convicted of a sexual offense

10.31234/osf.io/2gej8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Virginia Soldino ◽

Jaume Miró-Ramos ◽

Enrique J. Carbonell-Vayá

Keyword(s):

Response Bias ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Sexual Offending ◽

Sexual Addiction ◽

Sexual Offense ◽

Adult Males ◽

Clinical Scales ◽

Social Desirability Response Bias ◽

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽

Management Plans

Research has suggested that, in some cases, sexual offending might be a manifestation of an uncontrolled or compulsive online sexual activity, which may be conceptualized as a behavioral addiction. To deal with the lack of validated instruments to assess online sexual addiction, this study tested the psychometric properties of the Online Sexual Addiction Questionnaire (OSA-Q). To this end, a total of 100 men convicted of a sexual offense completed the Spanish version of the OSA-Q, along with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) for the assessment of related areas of impairment. Once individuals with social desirability response bias (n = 34) were extracted from the sample, the exploratory factor analysis yielded a four-factor structure explaining 77.06% of the variance for the OSA-Q. Additionally, internal consistency of the total score was strong (α = .97), and correlations with related clinical scales were significant. Overall, individuals convicted of online sexual offenses showed significantly higher scores on the OSA-Q than contact-exclusive offenders. These results justify the use of the OSA-Q (if accompanied by a valid assessment of social desirability response bias) in the screening of online sexual addiction in Spanish forensic samples, which might, in turn, improve existing risk management plans.

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MEASUREMENT AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY RESPONSE BIAS IN EXPERIMENTAL VIGNETTE RESARCH: A TEST OF FAZIO’S MODE THEORY

10.31222/osf.io/cp65t ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

John Stolte

Keyword(s):

Response Bias ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Dual Process ◽

Attitude Measurement ◽

Social Approval ◽

Social Psychological ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Mode Theory ◽

Social Desirability Response Bias ◽

The Social

BACKGROUND. Experimental vignette research methods have been used to study a diverse range of theoretical and practical issues. Vignettes are designed to create hypothetical cultural/normative contexts for the study of variation in self-reported attitudes. A key problem in such research, however, is potential social desirability response bias. METHOD. A vignette experimental test of an hypothesis derived from a dual-process theory (the MODE framework initially developed by Fazio) linking explicit vs. implicit self-reported attitude measurement and social desirability response bias is reported here. RESULTS. The data show that measuring the social approval of a central vignette character explicitly results in greater social desirability responding than measuring such approval implicitly, supporting MODE theory. CONCLUSIONS. Vignette research methodologies provide a rich, flexible toolkit for studying many important social psychological topics, including issues of inequality and equity. However, researchers can and should design a measurement strategy that carefully manages inferences drawn in light of conditions likely to produce social desirability response bias.

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Evidence Of Social Desirability Response Bias In Ethics Research: An International Study

Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) ◽

10.19030/jabr.v19i3.2171 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Richard A. Bernardi ◽

Erin L. Delorey ◽

Catherine C. LaCross ◽

Rebecca A. Waite

Keyword(s):

Response Bias ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Business Students ◽

International Study ◽

The United States ◽

International Studies ◽

Business Practices ◽

Transparency International ◽

Social Desirability Response Bias ◽

Ethics Research

This paper analyzes the association between ethical perceptions of questionable business practices and Hofstede’s Individualism, Transparency International’s Corruption Index, and social desirability response bias.  The sample consists of 1,048 business students from ten countries: Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Nepal, South Africa, Spain, and the United States.  The results of our analysis indicate that, while Hofstede’s (1980) cultural construct of Individualism was significant for two of the questions, social desirability response bias was the most consistent variable in modeling subjects’ responses.  Our data indicate that social desirability response bias should be controlled for when using self-reported data in ethics and/or international studies.

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Measurement And Social Desirability Response Bias In Experimental Vignette Research: A Test Of Fazio's Mode Theory (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.31001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

John Stolte

Keyword(s):

Response Bias ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Dual Process ◽

Attitude Measurement ◽

Social Approval ◽

Social Psychological ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Mode Theory ◽

Social Desirability Response Bias ◽

The Social

BACKGROUND Experimental vignette research methods have been used to study a diverse range of theoretical and practical issues. Vignettes are designed to create hypothetical cultural/normative contexts for the study of variation in self-reported attitudes. A key problem in such research, however, is potential social desirability response bias. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present experiment is to test an explicit theory explaining such bias. METHODS A vignette experimental test of an hypothesis derived from a dual-process theory (the MODE framework initially developed by Fazio) linking explicit vs. implicit self-reported attitude measurement and social desirability response bias is reported here. RESULTS The data show that measuring the social approval of a central vignette character explicitly results in greater social desirability responding than measuring such approval implicitly, supporting MODE theory. CONCLUSIONS Vignette research methodologies provide a rich, flexible toolkit for studying many important social psychological topics, including issues of inequality and equity. However, researchers can and should design a measurement strategy that carefully manages inferences drawn in light of conditions likely to produce social desirability response bias

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Social Desirability Response Bias in Children's Locus of Control Reports

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1978.43.3.924 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 924-926 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Edward E. Will ◽

Jo Ann Verdin

Keyword(s):

High School Students ◽

Locus Of Control ◽

Response Bias ◽

Social Desirability ◽

Junior High School ◽

Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

School Students ◽

Control Scale ◽

Social Desirability Response Bias ◽

Bivariate Regression

As part of a comprehensive evaluation of an in-school parenting education curriculum, 281 junior high school students in a major urban school district completed both the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children and the Crandall, Crandall, and Katkovsky Children's Social Desirability Questionnaire. Potential differences in influence of social-desirability response bias on the locus scores of students of differing race and sex were explored via zero-order correlations and bivariate regression. Although mean scores of black respondents were significantly higher than those of their white counterparts on measures of social-desirability response bias and external locus of control, Children's Social Desirability scores never accounted for more than 1% of the variance in the locus of control scores of any subgroup.

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