Personality Tests Of Social Desirability Response Measurement And Control,

Social desirability responding(SDR) was a kind of mind lean by using a social approbatory manner to response self-assessment questions and in order to make yourself to be more adaptive with social need.It was one of the most important sources to influence measuring and investigating the data validity.At present,it was always recognized that SDR was differentiated into self-deceptive enhancement(SDE) factor and impression management(IM) factor.And in it self,the two factors should be differentiated from their contents and the social desirable degree of the contents,while should not be differentiated from whether it was conscious or unconscious.The former one laid particular stress on egoistic tendency,and the latter one laid particular stress on moralistic tendency. But the structure of social desirability responding should be further discussed,and improving the measure tool should be pay excessive recognition.There were two ways which were distinguishing technology beforehand and controlling technology afterwards to deal with social desirability responding.The distinguishing technology beforehand even more depended on the experience and attention of the process,while the controlling technology afterwards even more related to the methodology discussing,which would be pay further study.In study 1,it designed a two factors model measuring tool of social desirability responding——the common social desirability scale,and discuss its psychometric index.In order to design the scale,the study use item differentiation analysis,Alpha Reliability analysis,Split-half reliability analysis,both the exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to discuss the construct validity.The result showed that the scale was better in reliability and validity,and can be used as a measurement tool to research the social desirability responding.In study 2,on the basic of designing the common social desirability scale,the article mainly used the common method biases statistic and control method to discuss the validity of controlling social desirability responding.First,it used test method to examine the common social desirability scale and the shorter edition of the big five personality questionnaire(NEO-FFI) in the case of self-assessment and familiar friends to assess them.Then,it compared the different consistency of personality assessment between the high-score group and the low-score group,and then mainly discussed semipartial correlation statistic and control method through analyzing measurable method biases and the first common factor to control social desirability responding.Correlation analysis showed that,by controlling the score of social desirability scale,the correlation between self-assessment and others assessment was significantly depressed in the case of agreeableness dimension of NEO-FFI controlling IM factor,while the correlation between self-assessment and others assessment was not significantly advanced or depressed in the case of other dimensions of NEO-FFI controlling social desirability responding.In addition,by controlling the first common factor of NEO-FFI,the correlation between self-assessment and others assessment was significantly depressed in the case of extraversion dimension of NEO-FFI controlling social desirability responding,while the correlation between self-assessment and others assessment was not significantly advanced or depressed in the case of other dimensions of NEO-FFI controlling social desirability responding.According to the findings of the 2 studies,following conclusions were drawn:(1) The common social desirability scale was better in reliability and validity,and can be used as a measurement tool to research the social desirability responding.(2) By using the common social desirability scale,the high-score group was certainly more different than the low-score group in the consistency of personality assessment.It showed that the the low-score group were more objective in responding personality questionnaire than the high-score group.(3) In order to controlling social desirability responding which is a common method biases,it didn't advanced but depressed the forecast validity of the personality test by using semipartial correlation statistic and control to deal with the score of the social desirability scale,and it was not the good method to advance the forecast validity of the personality test.(4)In order to controlling social desirability responding which is a kind of the common method biases,it didn't advanced but depressed the forecast validity of the personality test by using semipartial correlation statistic and control to deal with the non-circumgyrated first common factor, and it was not the good method to advance the forecast validity of the personality test.