Social Desirability as a Variable Affecting Responses on the California Psychological Inventory
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 47 (3_suppl) , 1223-1226
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1980.47.3f.1223
Abstract
This experiment was designed to show whether social desirability had a contaminating effect on any of the scales of the California Psychological Inventory or on the test as a whole. Subjects were divided into two groups, one of 10 to answer the test honestly and the other of 26 to answer its questions as if applying for a job and wanting to make a good impression. Data show that 10 of the 18 scales and the test as a whole, using multivariate analysis of variance, were not significantly contaminated by social desirability.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- CPI correlates of the need for approvalJournal of Clinical Psychology, 1966
- Relationship between the Social Desirability Scale and the California Psychological InventoryPsychological Reports, 1962