Hello everyone. I am doing a study where I have to control for social desirability using the above scale. According to Marlow and Crowne (1960), responders who score in the 20-33 range are likely to be highly concerned about social approval and respond to test items in such a way as to avoid disapproval of people who may read their responses. I have around 15 respondents who scored from 20-25 (no one got higher than 25). 15 respondents is a big portion of my sample and was wondering if their scores means I should completely omit them from my study?
We all know the classical Dunning-Kruger effect saying that less competent people usually overestimate their skills, whereas this is not as much the case for more competent people.
I was wondering, though, whether this is actually the case, or if the effect could also simply be explained by social-desirability bias: Less competent people have good reason to overstate their actual believe about their skill; people generally want to be seen as somewhat competent. No one would like to openly admit to being among the worst, and, if some test reveals that they actually are, they still have the excuse that "it was just a fluke", if they did not. On the other had, for competent people, this incentive might be somewhat counteracted by the desire to appear humble - no one likes the person proudly proclaiming to be the best, whereas someone doing rather well despite believing (or pretending to believe) to only be a bit above average would appear more sympathetic.
Have there been any studies that addressed this point?
I know a few niches really find Brazilian men attractive (gindr) and here we Brazil we tend to find Argentines handsome but in general, the region, do not to rank high when it comes to men's attractiveness in my perception. Anyone had an anecdote/experience to support / disclaim it?
Ironically, when it comes to women they are pretty fetished.
I am having a hard time finding a study that demonstrates predictive validity for the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Any known studies or ways to find studies? I've been searching for the scale + predictive validity and getting all kinds of results. I thought I had one and now have to find a replacement study quickly. THanks!
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What are the differences b/t Demand characteristics vs response bias vs Social desirability bias vs Impression Management? They are the same to me. thank you!
Hi all,
I created a selection test for my company to screen job applicants for a Home Health Aide position. We conducted a thorough job analysis and narrowed down the traits, skills, abilities and competencies needed to perform the job.
The test was created based off that job analysis and has different categories and dimensions (i.e. helping behaviors, compassion/empathy etc) but mostly it's measuring one's honesty, dependability and conscientiousness. Basically, an integrity/personality test.
I am concerned about applicants lying on the test items and just answering them in ways they're "supposed to" answer instead of being truthful. I have implanted some questions to detect social desirability but I'd like some others as well just to be sure. So far, I have two questions to detect social desirability bias - "I get angry sometimes" and "I never lie." All survey items are rated on a 1-5 Likert scale where 1 is strongly disagree and 5 is strongly agree.
Anyone have any suggestions for test items to detect social desirability bias amongst respondents?
I appreciate the help in advance. Thanks, everyone! :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias
An NYT piece from yesterday notes that Trump polls significantly better in anonymous internet polls than in person to person landline and cell-phone polling. Even when he's not mentioned, his policies like the Muslim ban are significantly more popular in anonymous polling.
Here's a bit more on social desirability bias from a study on the issue:
Here's some excerpts from the NYT piece I linked earlier: >There is also strong evidence that most traditional public opinion surveys inadvertently hide a segment of Trump’s supporters. Many voters are reluctant to admit to a live interviewer that they back a candidate who has adopted such divisive positions.... In a detailed analysis of phone versus online polling in Republican primaries, Kyle A. Dropp, the executive director of polling and data science at Morning Consult, writes: "Trump’s advantage in online polls compared with live telephone polling is eight or nine percentage points among likely voters." This difference, Dropp notes, is driven largely by more educated voters — those who would be most concerned with “social desirability.
Anyone here who follows British politics will be familiar with the "shy Tory" phenomenon. People are more likely to vote Tory than admit that they vote Tory. Polls in the UK sometimes underestimate Conservative support for this reason.
I'm currently a sophomore and we are making a research based on what interests us for our Methods in Behavioral Research course. However, for the survey that I will be making, I only have the SWLS scale to measure the life satisfaction of my future respondents.
My concern is that the scale was made years before the rise of social media, so social comparison aren't done thru phones yet. Can this scale still be relevant in the age of social media and smart phones where we are bombarded with all these ads and highlight reels of almost everyone?
My target audience are of any age but prefers 18-35 because there are "evidence that older adults report lower levels of comparison..." (Callan et al., 2015)
Does anyone know other life satisfaction scales that are born in the age of social media? Any suggestions and comments about the scale and target audience would be greatly appreciated.
