The influence of social desirability responding on the correlation between the Dogmatism and Repression-Sensitization Scales was examined. A positive relationship was found between these two scales (r = .44, p < .001). This relationship decreased only slightly when a partial correlation was used to remove the influence of social desirability responding (r = .40, p < .001). In addition, correcting for attenuation in the controlled variable still resulted in a significant relationship between these two variables (r = .39, p < .001). Thus social desirability responding does not have an undue influence on the relationship between the Dogmatism Scale and the Repression-Sensitization Scale.
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