Social desirability scale values of personal concepts.

Cruse, Daniel B.

doi:10.1037/h0022458

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“…This, coincidentally, is the same value reported by Fioravanti et al () for the Adjective Check List items and by Edwards (, Appendix) for the MMPI items. Higher correlations have been found for other personality questionnaire statements sampled from different item pools, including .87 for 140 items (Edwards, ), .89 for 2,824 items (Edwards, ), .90 for 1,647 items (Cruse, ), and .92 for 176 items (Edwards & Walsh, ). Even the PRF, which was developed with a resolute attempt to minimize desirability bias throughout all stages of test construction starting from the item‐writing process (Jackson, ), has a .76 correlation between its items’ rated SDSVs and endorsement rates (Helmes et al, ).…”

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Sex Differences in Judgments of Social Desirability

Paunonen

2015

Journal of Personality

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This study evaluates sex differences in the perceived desirability of personality behaviors and beliefs. Men and women (N = 149, Mage = 18.7) judged the social desirability scale values (SDSVs) of 150 personality statements as applied either to a male target or a female target. For comparison, some estimated SDSVs with no target sex specified. A separate sample of 537 respondents endorsed the 150 items via self-report. Raters showed a high consensus in their SDSV judgments within conditions (α = .86 to .90) and no sex-of-rater effects across conditions. Substantial sex-of-target effects (p < .001), however, revealed many behaviors that were viewed as desirable for one sex but not for the other. The behaviors seen as more (less) desirable when applied to men rather than to women were endorsed more (less) by men than by women in the respondent sample. Similar results were found when no target sex was specified for the SDSV ratings, presumably because judges evaluated the behaviors as applied to a target of their own sex. The present results have important implications for the measurement and reporting of SDSVs, the evaluation of substance versus style in self-reports, and the construction of desirability-reduced personality inventories.

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Sex Differences in Judgments of Social Desirability

Paunonen

2015

Journal of Personality

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“…For large, relatively unselected, groups of personality items and constructs, the distribution of SDSVs has been shown (Cruse, 1965;Edwards, 1966) to be bimodal with the modes falling somewhere around 3 and 7 on the 9 point SDSV continuum. Figure 1 shows the distribution of the SDSVs of the 400 PRF trait items, and the distributions of SDSVs reported by Edwards (1966) and Cruse (1965). Figure clearly shows that the proportion of items in the PRF with neutral SDSVs is larger than the proportion of items with neutral SDSVs in the Cruse (1965) list of personal constructs or in the Edwards (1966) list of items from which he constructed his Edwards Personality Inventory (Edwards, 1967).…”

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Improving the Validity of Affective Self-Report Measures Through Constructing Personality Scales Unconfounded With Social Desirability: a Study of the Personality Research Form1

Abbott

1975

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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Jackson's Personality Research Form (PRF) was investigated at the item and scale level with respect to the degree to which responses are confounded by social desirability. Jackson's usage of the differential validity index resulted in large proportions of items neutral in social desirability and scales relatively balanced in the number of items keyed for socially desirable and socially undesirable responses. These item and scale characteristics, the low correlations of PRF trait scales with social desirability scale scores, and the results of a component analysis of PRF trait scales and social desirability scales supported the discriminant construct validity of the PRF trait scales with respect to social desirability.

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“…It is now well established that the social desirability ratings of personality inventory items are highly related to the probability of endorsement of these items not only when considering the endorsement by a group (Cruse, 1965; Edwards, 1966) but also when considering the endorsement by individuals (Hanley, 1967). One approach used to minimize this problem is the forced-choice technique such as used in the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS).…”

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confidence: 99%