Social desirability of item, predisposition to resopnse it and interaction effect between them in a personality test.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380883
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: Sukigara Masune 名古屋市立大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (80148155)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: パーソナリティ検査 / 社会的望ましさ / 反応の偏り / 項目反応理論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

On the only Neuroticism of BigFive, a way of influences of social desirability on test scores were dependent on the individual's sensitive to social desirability. So, the effect is interactive. However, on the other traits, effects of social desirability on the score are additive. It suggested that influences of social desirability on test scores are different form one trait to another.
Mothers' social desirability judgments of temperament dimensions in the he Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire were more desirable than junior high school students with GPCM(Generalized Partial Credit Model), which is one of polytomous item response models. It demonstrated that the mothers' test scores are more influence by culture.

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