Social Desirability Response Effects: Three Alternative Models.

1 June 1983

journal article
Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal

Vol. 26 (2) , 321-331
https://doi.org/10.2307/255979

Abstract

Three models are developed for the effects of social desirability (SD) on organizational behavior research results. SD can act as (a) an unmeasured variable that produces spurious correlations between study variables, (b) a suppressor variable that hides relationships, or (c) a moderator variable that conditions the relationship between two other variables.

Keywords

BEHAVIOR
SOCIAL DESIRABILITY
SUPPRESSOR
UNMEASURED
SPURIOUS
RESPONSE EFFECTS
ALTERNATIVE MODELS
HIDES
DESIRABILITY RESPONSE

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