Socially desirable responding in personality assessment: Not necessarily faking and not necessarily substance

Holden, Ronald R.; Passey, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.04.015

Cited by 62 publications

(48 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The use of self-reports may, however, result in a certain bias. For example, students may respond in a socially desirable or self-serving way (Holden 2007). We tried to mitigate this potential by guaranteeing that the questionnaires would be used for research purposes only and that the results would be presented anonymously.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Students with Varying Academic Ability Benefit Equally from Personal Qualities? Applying a Trait and State Perspective

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Using multilevel models, this study examined whether students with varying academic ability benefit equally from perseverance and intellectual curiosity in terms of academic achievement. In addressing this question two perspectives were applied: a trait perspective, focusing on differences between students, and a state perspective, focusing on differences within students across semesters. By means of an online questionnaire, undergraduate students (N = 2272) were asked to rate themselves on perseverance and intellectual curiosity at the beginning of five consecutive semesters. Results indicate that academic ability but also personal qualities have to be taken into account to explain the differences between students in academic achievement. In particular perseverance was found to be important in explaining differences both between students and within students across semesters. Also, individual students fluctuate quite substantially in their reported perseverance and intellectual curiosity from semester to semester.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Students with Varying Academic Ability Benefit Equally from Personal Qualities? Applying a Trait and State Perspective

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Although this is possible, most evidence suggests that agreeable, not disagreeable, individuals are more prone to manage impressions (Holden & Passey, 2010). Moreover, Graziano and Tobin (2002) conclude, "If agreeableness is contaminated by self-favoring biases, the contamination is limited in scope" (p. 723).…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do nice guys—and gals—really finish last? The joint effects of sex and agreeableness on income.

Judge

Livingston

Hurst

2012

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

178

152

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Sex and agreeableness were hypothesized to affect income, such that women and agreeable individuals were hypothesized to earn less than men and less agreeable individuals. Because agreeable men disconfirm (and disagreeable men confirm) conventional gender roles, agreeableness was expected to be more negatively related to income for men (i.e., the pay gap between agreeable men and agreeable women would be smaller than the gap between disagreeable men and disagreeable women). The hypotheses were supported across 4 studies. Study 1 confirmed the effects of sex and agreeableness on income and that the agreeableness-income relationship was significantly more negative for men than for women. Study 2 replicated these results, controlling for each of the other Big Five traits. Study 3 also replicated the interaction and explored explanations and paradoxes of the relationship. A 4th study, using an experimental design, yielded evidence for the argument that the joint effects of agreeableness and gender are due to backlash against agreeable men.

show abstract

“…Holden and Fekken (1989) reported a Cronbach alpha coefficient of .78 (N 5 402), Helmes and Holden (2003) reported an alpha coefficient of .74 (N 5 202), and Holden and Passey (2010) reported an alpha coefficient of .81 (N 5 602). Beretvas, Meyers, and Leite (2002) reported alpha coefficients of .80 for women and .70 for men from their reliability generalizability study.…”

Section: Internal Consistencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Response Bias, Malingering, and Impression Management

Helmes

Holden

Ziegler

2015

Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Socially desirable responding in personality assessment: Not necessarily faking and not necessarily substance

Cited by 62 publications

References 15 publications

Do Students with Varying Academic Ability Benefit Equally from Personal Qualities? Applying a Trait and State Perspective

Do Students with Varying Academic Ability Benefit Equally from Personal Qualities? Applying a Trait and State Perspective

Do nice guys—and gals—really finish last? The joint effects of sex and agreeableness on income.

Response Bias, Malingering, and Impression Management

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About