The social desirability stereotype and some measures of psychopathology.

Cj, Klett; As, Tamkin

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“…Most of the relevant research in the personality area has concerned the relation between subjects' judgments of desirability and their self-reports, often on the same items (Boe & Kogan, 1963; Edwards, 1965; Heilbrun & Goodstein, 1961b;Heineman, 1953;Klett & Tamkin, 1957; Rosen, 1956a Rosen, ,1956b Rosen & Mink, 1961;Scott, 1963;Taylor, 1959). Especially pertinent are the findings by several investigators that the relationship between selfreports and judgments was greater for individuals with high scores on defensiveness (Messick, 1964; Rosen, 1956a Rosen, , 1956bRosen & Mink, 1961) and social desirability response style scales (Edwards, 1965;Messick, 1964), and for items that were the least extreme and had the most variation in social desirability ratings (Messick, 1964).…”

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Desirability Judgments and Self‐reports as Predictors of Social Behavior1

Stricker

Messick

Jackson

1967

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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This study investigated the usefulness of desirability judgments of personality items as an indirect measure of the judge's personality.Self-reports and judgments were compared on separate forms of five personality scales. With a few striking exceptions, the two kinds of measures were generally unrelated, and they had markedly different patterns of correlations with behavioral measures of conformity. In general, self-reports only correlated with conformity for subjects who were unsuspicious about the conformity procedures, but judgments correlated with conformity for unsuspicious and suspicious subjects. Both self-reports and judgments correlated with response styles and intelligence, but the self-reports were more extensively involved with the response styles. The differential functioning of the two kinds of measures could not be attributed to the operation of response styles or intelligence, nor did these latter variables moderate the relatiunship between self-reports and judgments. Desirability Judgments and Self-Reports as Predictors of Social Behavior lInterest in alternatives to self-report measures of personality traits and attitudes has increased in recent years (Campbell, 1950; Cattell, 1957; Cook & Selltiz, 1964;Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, & Sechrest, 1966;Weschler & Bernberg, 1950), fostered by the growing criticism of many widely used self-report scales and inventories. The criticism of self-report devices centers around their limited construct validity and their susceptibility to the various biases that occur when people attempt to describe themselves.One approach to II indirect '1 (Campbell, 1950;Weschler & Bernberg, 1950) or "objective ll (Cattell, 1957) assessment, an approach that employs subjects' judgments of the favorability or desirability of questionnaire items, has stimulated research in the personality and attitude domains.The work in the two areas, though proceeding along similar lines, has developed quite independently. Although there were precursors (cf., Campbell, 1950), the impetus for the attitude research was Hovland and Sherif's (1952) well-known methodological investigation of Thurstone attitude scaling, which found that Negroes, pro-Negro whites, and antiNegro whites gave different ratings of favorability to attitude items concerning Negroes. Among the subsequent studies of this kind in the attitude area (e.g., Atkins, 1966;Ostrom, 1966;Prothro, 1955Prothro, , 1957Segall, 1959;Upshaw, 1962;Ward, 1966;Weiss, 1959), only the research by Cook and his associates (Edrich, Selltiz, & Cook, 1966;Selltiz, Edrich, & Cook, 1965;Zavalloni & Cook, 1965) explicitly explored the validity of favorability ratings as an indirect attitude measure.-2-Research employing jud~nents as indirect measures of personality has been influenced by two kinds of findings. One was the pioneering work by Edwards (1953) and Gordon (1953) that uncovered correlations of .87 and .96, respectively, between the favorability or social desirability of personality items and their frequency of endorsement. Thes...

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Section: Desirability Judgments and Self-reports As Predictors Of Socmentioning

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Desirability Judgments and Self‐reports as Predictors of Social Behavior1

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Messick

Jackson

1967

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“…His results failed to support the expected relationship. Crites offered that, although ego-strength is related to achievement and aspiration needs (Singer, Wilensky & Mc-Craven, 1956;Klett & Tamkin, 1957), OL is not related to these factors. As a consequence, there is no common variance with striving for attainment as the intervening variable.…”

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The confusing literature on the OL Scale of the SVIB.

Carkhuff¹,

Drasgow²

1963

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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The performance of an hospitalized neuropsychiatric sample on the edwards personal preference schedule

Newman¹,

Wischner

1960

J. Clin. Psychol.

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PROBLEMThe present paper is concerned with the performance of a group of hospitalized neuropsychiatric Ss on the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (PPS) and compares this group with available normative samples and other data. In the original test manual'') the description of research in progress indicates the application of the PPS to varioun populations including hospital patients and the aged. To the writer's knowledge, systematic PPS data for clinical groups are not readily available. 3. MERRILL, R.. M. and HEATHERS LOUISE €3. The relation of the MMPI to the Edwards Personal Corp., 1954. pathology. J . msult. Psychol., 1957,91,450. Preference Schedule on a college counseling center sample. J . consult. Psychool., 1956,,%l,31()-314.

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The social desirability stereotype and some measures of psychopathology.

Cited by 19 publications

References 2 publications

Desirability Judgments and Self‐reports as Predictors of Social Behavior1

Desirability Judgments and Self‐reports as Predictors of Social Behavior1

The confusing literature on the OL Scale of the SVIB.

The performance of an hospitalized neuropsychiatric sample on the edwards personal preference schedule

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