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Article: A meta-analytic review and empirical test of the potential confounding effects of social desirability response sets in organizational behaviour research.
- Article from:
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1992
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Recently, several authors have questioned the potential hissing effects of social desirability response sets on the findings reported in organizational behaviour research. This paper repons the results of two studies designed to examine this issue. In the first study, a meta-analytic review of 33 studies that have examined the relationships between social desirability response sets and organizational behaviour constructs was conducted. The results of this study indicated that social desirability, as traditionally measured in the literature, is significantly (although moderately) correlated with several widely used constructs in organizational behaviour research. The second ...