Measurement of Response Sets
- 1 June 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 14 (3) , 907-913
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1964.14.3.907
Abstract
This report presents defensible procedures for measuring Acquiescence and Social Desirability along with scales to measure these variables. Such scales are only slightly related; each is related to both test and non-test behavior. Such scales should be useful: (1) as marker variables in personality research, (2) as “response set” controls when studying the predictive validity of content variance of inventories, and (3) as measures of reliable characteristics of individuals.Keywords
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