What do attitude scales measure: The problem of social desirability.
- 1 March 1961
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 62 (2) , 386-390
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0042497
Abstract
It was hypothesized that the tendency to find positive correlations between various measures of personality traits may accrue because of the willingness of S to ascribe to himself either socially desirable or undesirable attitudes on several samples of his self-attitudes. It was found that social desirability did influence the probability of ascribing to oneself items from several kinds of questionnaires, that socially desirable traits on various tests tended to be ascribed to by Ss wishing to describe themselves in socially desirable ways. From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4GD86T. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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