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Social desirability in personality inventories: The nature of the evaluative factor

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Summary, in English

The difference between evaluatively loaded and evaluatively neutralized fivefactor inventory items was used to create new variables, one for each factor in the fivefactor model. Study 1 showed that these variables can be represented in terms of a general evaluative factor which is related to social desirability measures and indicated that the factor may equally well be represented as separate from the Big Five as superordinate to them. Study 2 revealed an evaluative factor in self-ratings and peer ratings of the Big Five, but the evaluative factor in self-reports did not correlate with such a factor in ratings by peers. In Study 3 the evaluative factor contributed above the Big Five in predicting work performance, indicating a substance component. The results are discussed in relation to measurement issues and self-serving biases.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

144-157

Publication/Series

Journal of Individual Differences

Volume

35

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Hogrefe & Huber Publishers

Topic

  • Psychology

Keywords

  • social desirability
  • personality
  • self-ratings
  • Big Five

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2151-2299