Whether social desirability responding may heighten when personality inventories are intact was examined by administering intact and intermixed personality measures of Respect for Others and Self-confidence together with a measure of social desirability. Intact inventories correlated higher with social desirability than intermixed inventories. However, the effect was mild and might have been due to an inventory response set.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
GreenA. W.Sociology: An analysis of life in modern society. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960.
2.
GreenwaldH. J.SatowY.A short social desirability scale. Psychological Reports, 1970, 27, 131–135.
3.
HalpernG.Item arrangement and bias in an interest inventory. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1968, 28, 1111–1115.
4.
WalshJ. A.Prediction of anchor effects on personality items from rating dispersions. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1968, 28, 317–325.
