Modeling Socially Desirable Responding and Its Effects

Autor/inn/en	Ziegler, Matthias; Buehner, Markus
Titel	Modeling Socially Desirable Responding and Its Effects
Quelle	In: Educational and Psychological Measurement, 69 (2009) 4, S.548-565 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1644
DOI	10.1177/0013164408324469
Schlagwörter	Response Style (Tests); Models; Control Groups; Structural Equation Models; Social Desirability; Validity; Error of Measurement; Statistical Analysis; College Students; NEO Personality Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Antwortverhalten; Analogiemodell; Soziales Bedürfnis; Gültigkeit; Messfehler; Statistische Analyse; Collegestudent
Abstract	The impact of socially desirable responding or faking on noncognitive assessments remains an issue of strong debate. One of the main reasons for the controversy is the lack of a statistical method to model such response sets. This article introduces a new way to model faking based on the assumption that faking occurs due to an interaction between person and situation. The technique combines a control group design with structural equation modeling and allows a separation of trait and faking variance. The model is introduced and tested in an example. The results confirm a causal influence of faking on means and covariance structure of a Big 5 questionnaire. Both effects can be reversed by the proposed model. Finally, a real-life criterion was implemented and predicted by both variance sources. In this example, it was the trait but not the faking variance that was predictive. Implications for research and practice are discussed. (Contains 2 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10