Social Desirability Response Effects: Three Alternative Models.

Ganster, Daniel C.; Hennessey, Harry W.; Luthans, Fred

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“…For example, responses may be distorted by social desirability, i.e., the tendency to answer questions in a manner viewed favorably by others (Ganster, Hennessey, & Luthans, 1983;Chen, Dai, Spector, & Jex, 1997;King & Bruner, 2000). When two or more variables from data obtained by self-report are compared, social desirability might inflate the observed correlations as a confounder.…”

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Decision-Making Styles and Subjective Performance Evaluation of Decision-Making Quality among Hospital Nurses

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2017

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The Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire (MDMQ) is a widely used measure of decisionmaking styles (adaptive: vigilance; and maladaptive: hypervigilance, buck passing, and procrastination), but there is little evidence regarding its predictive ability in professional settings. The aim of the study was to assess the association between MDMQ dimensions and subjective performance evaluation of decision-making quality (SPEDM) among hospital nurses (N = 109). We also assessed whether MDMQ can predict variance in SPEDM when controlled for affective traits (neuroticism -BFI; and self-esteem -RSES), social desirability (MC-SDS10), and length of practice. Self-rated SPEDM was positively associated with vigilance, and negatively associated with maladaptive decision-making styles. Supervisor-rated SPEDM was unrelated to decision-making styles. Social desirability slightly affected the relationships between self-rated SPEDM and decision-making styles. Despite several limitations, the results cast doubt regarding the ability of the MDMQ to predict decision-making quality.

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Section: Social Desirabilitymentioning

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Decision-Making Styles and Subjective Performance Evaluation of Decision-Making Quality among Hospital Nurses

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2017

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“…Which parental and adolescent risk and protective factors are most important for girls compared to boys, and vice versa? (4) Which age differences exist between older (16)(17)(18)(19) years) compared to younger adolescents (13-15 years) on parental and adolescent risk and protective factors, and which of the risk and protective factors are most important for psychological distress for younger and older adolescents?…”

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“…Likewise, the measure on alcohol is brief, but the face validity is good and the measure has been used successfully in earlier studies [33]. Another limitation might be that the measures of the study are based on self-report, which may be biased because people have a tendency to give socially desirable answers [16].…”

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Risk and protective factors for psychological distress among adolescents: a family study in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study

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2011

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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“…In this study, the objective was to assess students' stress as perceived by students, avoiding any distortion caused by the researcher's agenda. Moreover, students are known to be adept in responding to paper-and-pencil questionnaires and to structured interviews in ways they believe the teacher desires [Newton et al, 1984] -that is, their responses are likely to be biased by a special type of a social desirability response style [Ganster, Hennessey & Luthans, 1983]. Therefore, it was decided to use the nominal groups technique for the identification of stresses relevant to students.…”

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The major objective of the present research was to identify stresses perceived by undergraduate students to characterize their university-related life sphere. Graduate students (n=16) served as the researcher's confederates. Each confederate solicited highly frequent and important stress conditions from a group of up to ten undergraduates, (total n = 108) using the nominal group technique.Each group provided a rank order of the ten most relevant stresses. Fifteen stresses were identified as appearing in most groups. For each of the fifteen stresses, its mean rank order was calculated across the relevant groups. The highest mean rankings were given to the group of stresses classified as examination related, followed by those which had to do with meeting class assignments and by those related to the teaching process. The results were interpreted as providing strong support to the conceptualization of stress as a condition appraised by the individual to pose threat or danger to himself or herself.

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Social Desirability Response Effects: Three Alternative Models.

Cited by 388 publications

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Decision-Making Styles and Subjective Performance Evaluation of Decision-Making Quality among Hospital Nurses

Decision-Making Styles and Subjective Performance Evaluation of Decision-Making Quality among Hospital Nurses

Risk and protective factors for psychological distress among adolescents: a family study in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study

Students' stress

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