Impression Management and Self-Deceptive Scales - IPIP: a test of different theoretical models
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2020.1.32580Keywords:
egoistic bias, moralistic bias, social desirability, response bias.Abstract
One challenge of self-report assessments is response styles, individual preferences for some of the options in a given response scale that might bias the true latent trait level of the respondent. Socially desirable responding consists of one individual making efforts to display oneself in a favorable manner given perceived social values. Three factor models of social desirability have received attention, with two and three factors, and the last one two factors and four facets (or four-factor model). In the present study, we explore the extent to which these three factor models represent the structure of the Impression Management and Self-Deception Scale-IPIP. Participants were 466 adults (M = 25.22 years, DP = 7.05, 60.27% females). The four-factor model yielded the best fit to the data, but the original two-factor structure resulted in the simpler and clearer factor solution. Implications of these findings as to the scoring and interpretation of the instrument are discussed.Downloads
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