Effects of faking on self-deception and impression management scales

Pauls, Cornelia A.; Crost, Nicolas W.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2003.11.018

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“…The Impression Management (IM) subscale of the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (Paulhus, 1991) was used to measure the tendency to control how one appears to others, with a focus on presenting oneself in a socially desirable way. Participants rated 20 items on a scale from 1 (not true) to 7 (very true), such as ÒI have done things that I donÕt tell other people about.Ó In the present study, the items were summed to create scale scores (α = .75), using a continuous scoring Running head: OBJECTIFICATION THEORY AND COSMETIC SURGERY 11 method (e.g., Pauls & Crost, 2004). Scores ranged from 20 to 140, with higher scores indicating a greater tendency to engage in impression management.…”

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Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery

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This study investigated cosmetic surgery attitudes within the framework of objectification theory. One hundred predominantly White, British undergraduate women completed self-report measures of impression management, global self-esteem, interpersonal sexual objectification, self-surveillance, body shame, and three components of cosmetic surgery attitudes. As expected, each of the objectification theory variables predicted greater consideration of having cosmetic surgery in the future. Also, as expected, sexual objectification and body shame uniquely predicted social motives for cosmetic surgery, whereas self-surveillance uniquely predicted intrapersonal motives for cosmetic surgery. These findings suggest that womenÕs acceptance of cosmetic surgery as a way to manipulate physical appearance can be partially explained by the degree to which they view themselves through the lenses of sexual and self-objectification.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery

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“…Eysenck et al, 1985;Graziano & Tobin, 2002;J. Hogan et al, 2007;Konstabel et al, 2006;Kurtz, Tarquini, & Iobst, 2008;Li & Bagger, 2006;Lönnqvist, Paunonen, et al, 2007;Maltby et al, 2001;McCrae, 1986;McCrae & Costa 1983;McKelvie, 2004;Ones et al, 1996;Paulhus, 1998;Paulhus & Reid, 1991;Pauls & Crost, 2004;Pauls & Stemmler, 2003;D.B. Smith & Ellingson, 2002;H.L.…”

Section: What Impression Management Scales Measure: Empirical Evidencmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Social Desirability Scales

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2010

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Social desirability (specifically, impression management) scales are widely used by researchers and practitioners to screen individuals who bias self-reports in a self-favoring manner. These scales also serve to identify individuals at risk for psychological and health problems. The present review explores the evidence with regard to the ability of these scales to achieve these objectives. In the first part of the review, I present six criteria to evaluate impression management scales and conclude that they are unsatisfactory as measures of response style. Next, I explore what individual differences in impression management scores actually do measure. I compare two approaches: a defensiveness approach, which argues that these scales measure defensiveness that stems from vulnerable self-esteem, and an adjustment approach, which suggests that impression management is associated with personal well-being and interpersonal adjustment. Data from a wide variety of fields including social behavior, affect and wellbeing, health, and job performance tend to favor the adjustment approach. Finally, I argue that scales measuring impression management should be redefined as measures of interpersonally oriented self-control that identify individuals who demonstrate high levels of self-control, especially in social contexts.

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“…A model of psychological processes underlying faking on test taking integrating concepts from other models is supported by results that suggest personality factors and perceptions of situational factors contribute to faking behavior (Pauls & Crost, 2004). These findings imply that people differ with regard to how much they fake on a personality test in a simulated employment setting, with some people faking substantially and others faking very little, if at all.…”

Section: Personalitymentioning

confidence: 69%