Document Type
Unpublished Paper
Language
eng
Format of Original
15 p.
Publication Date
4-1993
Source Publication
Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists
Abstract
The question of whether to remove socially desirable responding (SDR) variance from self-report personality inventories, or to treat it as a facet of personality, has been the center of a debate spanning the last 25 years (Furnham, 1986). Recently, this controversy again came to the forefront of the literature via an exchange between a group of researchers (Block, 1990; Edwards, 1990; Nicholson & Hogan, 1990; Walsh, 1990). The essence of this debate is whether the correlation between a SDR scale and a personality scale indicated that the personality scale is contaminated by SDR bias, or if it merely indicates that there is content overlap between the two types of scales.
Recommended Citation
Guastello, Stephen J.; Berkowitz, Marvin W.; Billings, Steven W.; and Rieke, Mark L., "The Content of Several Measures of Social Desirability" (1993). Psychology Faculty Research and Publications. 47.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/psych_fac/47