A CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL REEXAMINATION OF THE MEASUREMENT OF THE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY OF ITEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DETECTING DESIRABLE RESPONSE STYLE AND SCALE DEVELOPMENT

By N. Kuncel, A. Tellegen. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Applicant Faking, Social Desirability, and the Prediction of Counterproductive Work Behaviors (2011, background): “Recent work by Kuncel and Tellegen (2009 ) indicates that respondents' faking attempts are often complex and may not always result in linear score increases as is typically predicted.”
• Social desirability bias in self-reported well-being measures: evidence from an online survey (2017, background): “Furthermore, personality traits judged more desirable are also much more likely to be endorsed by people who score high on measures of social desirability (Bäckström, Björklund, & Larsson, 2009; DeYoung, Peterson, & Higgins, 2002; Konstabel, Aavik, & Allik, 2006; Kuncel & Tellegen, 2009).”
• A meta-analysis of dependability coefficients (test–retest reliabilities) for measures of the Big Five (2014, background): “…be affected by, for example, varying numbers of response options (Lozano, García-Cueto, & Muñiz, 2008) and reversed items (Swain, Weathers, & Niedrich, 2008), the degree of social desirability in items (Kuncel & Tellegen, 2009), and even differences in item contexts (Rivers, Meade, & Fuller, 2009).”
• Working Memory: Theories, Models, and Controversies (2015, unknown): “Second, Kuncel & Tellegen (2009, p. 201) have shown that “the relation between degree of endorsement of an item and its judged desirability such that no general model of item desirability can be adopted that will accurately represent 552 Podsakoff MacKenzie Podsakoff relations across all items,…”
• A Meta-Analysis of Interpersonal and Organizational Workplace Deviance Research (2019, background): “Additionally, we recommend that researchers evaluate the extent to which social desirability (Kuncel & Tellegen, 2009) accounts for the strength of relationships within workplace deviance’s nomological network.”