The relationships between individually defined and group defined social desirability and performance on the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule.

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This study investigated three issues relative to performance on the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS): (a) the relationship between the social desirability of statement alternatives on the questionnaire and the endorsement of statements as self-characteristic when the individual's own desirability values are used as predictors, (b) the prediction of statement endorsement using the individual's social desirability values for the statements as opposed to prediction using group-defined values for the statements, (c) the differential relationships between the individual's social desirability values and performances on the separate scales of the EPPS. The 58 subjects used in this study were obtained from a large undergraduate psychology course at the State University of Iowa. This sample included 29 males and 29 females. The results indicated that the individual's social desirability set is an important source of variance in EPPS performance, since college subjects endorsed as self-characteristic the more highly valued statement at least two out of every three occasions when the statement alternatives were assigned different individual social desirability values. It was also found that individual social desirability values were more highly related to EPPS performance than were group desirability values, a finding which differs from that reported by J. B. Taylor (1959) who used the MMPI as the performance variable. Finally, analysis by separate scales suggested that individual social desirability set is related to most but not all of the EPPS variables. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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