Self-knowledge and social desirability of personality traits

Meleddu, Mauro; Guicciardi, Marco

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0984(199805/06)12:3<151::aid-per296>3.0.co;2-c

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“…The present research has a few limitations: our exploratory study, based on a self-administered web survey, restricted the participation to the survey only to a convenience sample of people equipped with an Internet connection (Couper, 2000). Furthermore, self-report questionnaires evaluate subjective characteristics and, as is well known, can be biased from social desirability and acquiescence (Meleddu and Guicciardi, 1998). However, the anonymity and the short duration of the survey may have limited these biases.…”

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The Rebooting in Sports and Physical Activities After COVID-19 Italian Lockdown: An Exploratory Study

Guicciardi

Pazzona

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The lockdown imposed in Italy to reduce the spread of COVID-19 posited unusual challenges to people practicing sports and physical activities. The rebooting of activities highlighted the need to cope with new behaviors and routines, such as wearing a face mask while exercising. We conducted a web-based survey in Italy at the start of physical activities’ rebooting, to investigate how people reacted to the new norms. Participants completed the questionnaires assessing insomnia, regulatory self-efficacy, optimism, mood states, and mental toughness. Age, gender, and environment were assumed as design variables. Results showed that in outdoor activities, the younger females as compared to the older manifest less regulatory self-efficacy, while the younger males manifest more regulatory self-efficacy than the older. In indoor activities, a reversed pattern of regulatory-self-efficacy was observed. Regarding life orientation, younger participants showed less optimism and positive expectation for the future and seem to be more exposed to the unexpected effects of the restrictions: they showed more sleep disturbances, confusion, depression, anger, and fatigue and less vigor and mental toughness than older participants. An understanding of the psychological implications of the rebooting phase can support the enactment of more appropriate behaviors to practice sports and physical activities when living at the time of the coronavirus.

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The Rebooting in Sports and Physical Activities After COVID-19 Italian Lockdown: An Exploratory Study

Guicciardi

Pazzona

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…In the first case, a sample of respondents evaluate how desirable they personally regard a particular characteristic, and aggregated scores of these judgments are assumed to represent the incentives for SD-bias (Meleddu & Guicciardi, 1998). This is a valid indicator when (a) the underlying personal preferences represent the normative climate in the surveyed population and when (b) the sample of informants is representative for those respondents for which the aim is to predict SD-bias.…”

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Measures of Desirability Beliefs and Their Validity as Indicators for Socially Desirable Responding

Stocké

Hunkler

2007

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Social desirability (SD)-bias is a serious threat for survey-data quality, and the respondents' desirability beliefs have proven in many studies to predict the incentives for the strength as well as for the direction of this bias. However, the issue of the relative validity of different ways to measure these incentives has hardly received any attention. We introduced three such measures and discussed the respective tradeoffs between their parsimony on the one hand and the implied assumptions which have to be fulfilled on the other. In the empirical part of our paper, we tested with four questionnaire topics whether and how strong these assumptions are violated and thus how much measurement effort is necessary to obtain a sufficiently good indicator for the perceived incentives for SD-bias. These topics were: (a) having prejudice against the elderly, (b) making charitable donations, (c) participating in political elections and (d) being environmentally conscious. We found the most parsimonious one-point measure to be strongly affected by measurement error in the case of all questionnaire topics. Depending on how strong the assumption of monotony was violated, for some topics the medium elaborated simple difference scores were sufficiently valid, but partly only the most elaborated domain-specific difference scores were a valid predictor for the potential strength and direction of incentives for SD-bias.

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“…In their study of student leaders at the US Naval Academy, Roush and Atwater (1992) also found individuals high on introversion provided performance ratings better aligned with those provided by their subordinates. Meleddu and Guicciardi (1998) found extraverted individuals tend to provide more socially desirable ratings. In the context of 360 performance evaluation, an extraverted individual may be inclined to provide high self-ratings of performance as these may be seen as more socially desirable than lower ratings.…”

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Personality antecedents of self-other rating discrepancy

Sinha¹,

Mesmer‐Magnus²,

Viswesvaran³

2010

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Abstract. Multi-rater feedback systems are increasingly being used in organizations for assessment and development. Research suggests self-ratings are often uncorrelated with other-ratings, which has implications for ratee receptivity to feedback. Prior research suggests ratee personality may offer insight into selfother rating discrepancy. We explored the extent to which five work-related personality dimensions offer explanatory variance in self-other rating discrepancy using archival data of 527 employees from a large financial organization. Analyses of 487 self-peer dyads and 501 self-supervisor dyads revealed low agreement among self-, supervisor-, and peer-ratings of performance. Self-raters high on extraversion, dominance, cultural conformity, cynicism, and detail orientation were somewhat likely to over-rate their performance as compared to peer ratings. Cynical and detail-oriented raters were likely to over-rate their performance as compared with supervisor ratings. Detail orientation and cultural conformity interacted to predict self-other rating discrepancies for both supervisors and peers. Implications for research and practice are discussed. Keywords: self-other rating discrepancy, rater personality, supervisor/peer ratings, 360-feedback.Resumen. En los últimos tiempos, se está incrementando el uso de sistemas de feedback multi-evaluador por parte de las organizaciones para la evaluación y el desarrollo de su personal. La investigación sugiere que las autoevaluaciones del desempeño a menudo no correlacionan con las evaluaciones de los demás, lo que tiene implicaciones para la receptividad del evaluado al feedback. La investigación previa sugiere que la personalidad del evaluado puede ser un punto importante en la discrepancia entre las autoevaluaciones y las evaluaciones de los otros. En el presente estudio se exploró el grado en que cinco dimensiones de personalidad relacionadas con el trabajo explican la varianza en la discrepancia entre las autoevaluaciones y las evaluaciones de los otros, usando los datos de archivo de 527 empleados de una gran organización financiera. El análisis de 487 parejas de autoevaluaciones y evaluaciones de los compañeros y 501 parejas de autoevaluaciones y evaluaciones de los supervisores reveló un bajo acuerdo entre las autoevaluaciones, las evaluaciones de los supervisores y las evaluaciones de los compañeros. Los evaluados altos en extraversión, dominancia, conformidad cultural, cinismo y orientación al detalle fueron algo más probables a sobre-estimar su desempeño en las autoevaluaciones comparadas con las evaluaciones que recibían de sus compañeros. Los evaluados cínicos y orientados al detalle tendieron a sobre-estimar su desempeño en comparación con las evaluaciones de sus supervisores. La orientación al detalle y la conformidad cultural interactuaron para predecir las discrepancias entre las autoevaluaciones y las evaluaciones de los supervisores y los compañeros. Finalmente, se discuten las implicaciones para la investigación y la prác-tica profesional de estos...

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Self-knowledge and social desirability of personality traits

Cited by 14 publications

References 85 publications

The Rebooting in Sports and Physical Activities After COVID-19 Italian Lockdown: An Exploratory Study

The Rebooting in Sports and Physical Activities After COVID-19 Italian Lockdown: An Exploratory Study

Measures of Desirability Beliefs and Their Validity as Indicators for Socially Desirable Responding

Personality antecedents of self-other rating discrepancy

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