Social Desirability Measure

Kemper, Christoph; Beierlein, Constanze; Bensch, Doreen; Kovaleva, Anastassiya; Rammstedt, Beatrice

doi:10.1037/t66957-000

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“…However, these scales are comparatively lengthy. In order to provide a measure of the Gamma factor of SDR that can be used also for research purposes with extreme time limitations, Kemper, Beierlein, Bensch, Kovaleva, and Rammstedt (2014) developed for the German context the KSE-G (Kurzskala Soziale Erwünschtheit-Gamma [Social Desirability-Gamma Short Scale]). Due to its short completion time (< 1 min), the instrument can be applied in research settings with severe time limitations, for example, large-scale surveys, and can be used to check whether questionnaire responses are biased by SDR.…”

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An English-Language Adaptation of the Social Desirability–Gamma Short Scale (KSE-G)

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The Social Desirability-Gamma Short Scale-the English-language adaptation of the Kurzskala Soziale Erwünschtheit-Gamma (KSE-G)-measures two aspects of the Gamma factor of socially desirable responding (SDR): exaggerating positive qualities (PQ+) and minimizing negative qualities (NQ−). The items of the German-language source version were translated into English using the TRAPD approach. Our empirical validation shows that the reliability and validity coefficients of the English adaptation are comparable to those of the German source instrument. Moreover, the results of measurement invariance testing suggest metric measurement invariance of the scale for the United Kingdom and Germany, thus implying comparability of correlations based on the latent factors across the two countries.

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An English-Language Adaptation of the Social Desirability–Gamma Short Scale (KSE-G)

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Kemper

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“…The Münster epistemic trust inventory (METI; ω = 0.974; Hendriks et al, 2015) is an instrument that measures epistemic trust in a source, using 14 items of paired adjectives. Finally, we utilized the social desirability short scale (KSE-G; Kemper et al, 2012) to capture response tendencies. It consists of two scales with three items each: Exaggeration of positive qualities (PQ+; ω = 0.677) and minimization of negative qualities (NQ-; ω = 0.616).…”

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A Tool for Assessing the Experience of Shared Reality: Validation of the German SR-T

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Humans are highly motivated to achieve shared reality – common inner states (i.e., judgments, opinions, attitudes) with others about a target object. Scholarly interest in the phenomenon has been rapidly growing over the last decade, culminating in the development of a five-item self-report scale for Shared Reality about a Target (SR-T; Schmalbach, Rossignac-Milon, Keller, Higgins, and Echterhoff, unpublished). The present study aims to validate the German version of the scale. Individuals can establish shared reality either by receiving social verification (i.e., agreement or confirmation from an interaction partner) or by aligning their inner state with that of their partner. To increase the scope of the present validation, we implemented both pathways of shared-reality creation in three studies ( N = 522). Study 1 employed a social judgment task, in which participants assessed ambiguous social situations and received confirming (vs. disconfirming) feedback from their partner. Studies 2 and 3 build on the saying-is-believing paradigm, in which participants align their own evaluation of the target with their partner’s judgment. Based on an evaluatively ambiguous description, participants communicated about a target person and later recalled information about the target (Study 2). To further generalize the findings, message production was omitted from the paradigm in Study 3. Overall, the five-item model of the SR-T evinced good fit and reliability. In Study 1, the SR-T reflected experimentally induced differences in commonality of judgments– even when controlling for several related state measures, such as Inclusion of Other in the Self and Need Threat. In Studies 2 and 3, the SR-T predicted participants’ evaluative recall bias, which is an established, indirect index of communicators’ shared-reality creation. This effect was stronger when participants overtly communicated with their study partner, but it still emerged without overt communication. Across all studies, correlations with related constructs support the convergent validity of the SR-T. In sum, we recommend the use of the SR-T in research on interpersonal processes and communication.

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“…a (Kemper, Beierlein, Bensch, et al, 2014) In addition, a set of sociodemographic variables (employment, income, educational attainment, age, and gender) was assessed. Employment was surveyed with the following nominal categories: "employed" (1), "self-employed" (2), "out of work and looking for work" (3), "out of work but not currently looking for work" (4), "doing housework" (5), "pupil/student" (6), "apprentice/internship" (7), "retired" (8), and "none of what is mentioned above" (9).…”

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An English-language adaptation and validation of the Political Efficacy Short Scale (PESS)

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The Political Efficacy Short Scale (PESS) is the English-language adaptation of the German-language Political Efficacy Kurzskala (PEKS); it measures perceived political efficacy with four items. PESS comprises two subscales—internal and external political efficacy—with two items each. Internal political efficacy refers to the belief in one’s own political effectiveness; external political efficacy refers to the belief in the responsiveness of the political system to citizens’ concerns. Completion time for all four items is less than 30 s. The items of the German-language source version were translated into English using the TRAPD approach. The present study empirically validated the English-language adaptation (PESS) based on a heterogeneous quota sample in the UK. The results show that the reliability and validity coefficients of the English-language adaptation are sufficiently high and that they are comparable to those of the German-language source version. In addition, the scale showed strict measurement invariance (i.e., equal loadings, intercepts, and uniquenesses) when comparing the UK and Germany, which indicates the comparability of manifest scale scores (means and variances) and correlations across the two nations. As a short scale, PESS lends itself particularly to the measurement of political efficacy in survey contexts in which assessment time or questionnaire space is limited. It is applicable in a variety of research disciplines, including political science, sociology, psychology, and economics.

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Social Desirability Measure

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An English-Language Adaptation of the Social Desirability–Gamma Short Scale (KSE-G)

An English-Language Adaptation of the Social Desirability–Gamma Short Scale (KSE-G)

A Tool for Assessing the Experience of Shared Reality: Validation of the German SR-T

An English-language adaptation and validation of the Political Efficacy Short Scale (PESS)

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