Social-Desirability Responding in the Assessment of Social Skill and Anxiety
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 63 (3) , 763-766
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1988.63.3.763
Abstract
The present study examines the relationship between social-desirability responding and both self-report and behavioral measures of assertion, conversational skill, and social anxiety. With one exception (Conflict Resolution Inventory-Nonassertion Scale), behavioral and self-report measures of assertion were unrelated to the social-desirability response set. Global but not specific behavioral measures of conversational skill were confounded with social-desirability responding. Self-report (e.g., Social Avoidance and Distress Scale) but not behavioral measures of anxiety were correlated with social-desirability scores. The need to evaluate further the psychometric properties of cognitive-behavioral measures is discussed.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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