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IF 1.1 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Studia Psychologica Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI:10.31577/sp.2023.02.872

Patrik Havan, Michal Kohút

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Abstract

Social desirability is a tendency to respond to items in a socially acceptable way. It can bias results and is a threat to the validity of the measure. The current study focused on exploring the effect of different instructions on personality traits. The sample consists of 363 Slovak adults, 260 women, and 103 men. The participants were between 18 and 62 years old ( M = 25.6; SD = 6.76). The Big Five Inventory-2 was used for measuring personality traits and social desirability. The participants were split into two groups depending on which instruction was administered first – honest setting or social desirability inducing setting (imagining the selection situation). All participants responded to both scenarios. We hypothesized that extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness are socially desirable traits, and so they will be higher using selection simulating instruction compared to honest instruction. The opposite was hypothesized for negative emotionality. The social desirability of open-mindedness was explored. The results confirmed all our hypotheses and showed that open-mindedness is a socially desirable trait as well. Importantly, we found an effect of the order of administrating different instructions – the effect of induced social desirability was present in the honest instruction setting.

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社会可取性是一种以社会可接受的方式对事物作出反应的倾向。它会使结果产生偏差，并对测量的有效性构成威胁。目前的研究重点是探索不同的指令对人格特质的影响。样本包括363名斯洛伐克成年人、260名女性和103名男性。参与者年龄在18到62岁之间(M = 25.6;Sd = 6.76)。大五量表-2用于测量人格特征和社会可取性。参与者被分成两组，这取决于哪个指令是首先执行的——诚实设置或社会期望诱导设置(想象选择的情况)。所有参与者都对这两种情况做出了反应。我们假设外向性、宜人性和尽责性是社会期望的特征，因此与诚实教学相比，选择模拟教学会使这些特征更高。消极情绪的假设正好相反。对开放思想的社会可取性进行了探讨。研究结果证实了我们所有的假设，并表明思想开放也是一种受社会欢迎的特质。重要的是，我们发现了不同指令的执行顺序的影响——诱导社会期望的影响在诚实的指令设置中存在。

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Studia Psychologica PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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2.00

自引率

8.30%

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审稿时长

43 weeks

期刊介绍： The international journal Studia Psychologica is published by the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, since 1956. The journal publishes original articles in the area of psychology of cognitive processes in personality and social context. The journal aims at providing contributions to the understanding of cognitive processes which are used in the everyday functioning of human beings. This includes studies on the acquisition and use of knowledge about the world by human beings, the nature of such knowledge, and the relationship between knowledge, behavior and personality conceived as an agent in his/her environment.