Results 11 to 20 of about 8,200,508 (344)

The Effects of Social Desirability on Students’ Self-Reports in Two Social Contexts: Lectures vs. Lectures and Lab Classes

Information, 2022
Attempts to detect socially desirable responding bias have mainly focused on studies that explore sensitive topics. However, researchers concur that the sensitive character of the survey could be affected by the social context within which the research ...
Konstantinos Lavidas, Stamatios Papadakis, Dionysios Manesis, Anastasia Sofia Grigoriadou, Vasilis Gialamas   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Social desirability bias in self-reported wellbeing measures. Evidence from an online survey [PDF]

, 2017
Social desirability seems to enhance well-being measures because individuals tend to increase the degree of their satisfaction and happiness resulting in response artifacts and in a serious threat to the validity of self-reported data.
Caputo, Andrea
core   +3 more sources

Hiding Sensitive Topics by Design? An Experiment on the Reduction of Social Desirability Bias in Factorial Surveys

Survey Research Methods, 2019
Factorial survey designs have gained increasing popularity within the social sciences. Compared to single-item questions, the method allows the researcher to model more realistic, multidimensional decision scenarios.
Sandra Walzenbach
doaj   +2 more sources

The Influence of Social Desirability on Sexual Behavior Surveys: A Review. [PDF]

Arch Sex Behav, 2022
Research in fields for which self-reported behaviors can be compared with factual data reveals that misreporting is pervasive and often extreme. The degree of misreporting is correlated with the level of social desirability, i.e., the need to respond in ...
King BM.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Experience of Using Bifactor Models to Reduce the Effects of Social Desirability on the Normative Questionnaire of Universal Competencies

Вопросы образования, 2023
One of the significant lack of questionnaires is a scores distortion for the measured constructs, associated with the social desirability effects. An even greater threat to the validity of decisions is social desirability in high-stakes evaluation, such ...
Егор Сагитов, Ирина Брун, Станислав Павлов   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The importance and efficacy of controlling for social desirability response bias

Ethics & Behavior, 2022
The extant literature acknowledges social desirability response bias (SDRB) is a pervasive issue for research that uses survey data and proposes several approaches to mitigating the issue, including: self-administered questionnaires, indirect questioning,
Richard A. Bernardi, Jonathan Nash
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Investigation of Social Media Addiction in Adolescents in Terms Of Social Appearance Anxiety and Social Desirability

International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
When the studies are examined, it is seen that social media addiction (SMA) increases in adolescents with high social desirability and social appearance anxiety (SAA).
Özge Canoğulları, Yasin Yılmaz, Emel Uysal Atabay   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are social desirability scales desirable? A meta-analytic test of the validity of social desirability scales in the context of prosocial behavior.

Journal of Personality, 2021
Social desirability (SD) scales have been used for decades in psychology and beyond. These scales are sought to measure individuals' tendencies to present themselves overly positive in self-reports, thus allowing to control for SD biases.
Lukas Lanz, Isabel Thielmann, Fabiola H. Gerpott   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social desirability in the measurement of subjective well-being: A study with Chilean university students

Interdisciplinaria, 2020
The present study aimed at determining the association between life satisfaction and subjective happiness while controlling for social desirability, and to explore whether overall satisfaction with life can be predicted by satisfaction with life ...
José Sepúlveda, Berta Schnettler, Marianela Denegri, Ligia Orellana, Jocelyne Sepúlveda, Pamela Canales, Sebastián González, Carolina Mardones, Ingrid Reyes   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Social Exclusion Bench Tool (SEBT): A visual way of assessing interpersonal social exclusion

MethodsX, 2021
: People usually prefer to appear with an inclusive and positive attitude to others’ eyes. For this reason, the self-report scales assessing social exclusion intentions are often biased by social desirability.
Davide Mazzoni, Marco Marinucci, Dario Monzani, Gabriella Pravettoni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source