The control of social desirability in personality inventories: A study using the principal-factor deletion technique |
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Authors: | Peter Borkenau Manfred Amelang |
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Institution: | University of Bielefeld West Germany;University of Heidelberg West Germany |
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Abstract: | The present study sought to investigate Paulhus' (1981) principal-factor deletion technique (PFDT), a factor analytic method for controlling for socially desirable responding. Adult subjects (N = 330) responded to both forms of the Eysenck Personality Inventory and a 32-item lie scale. Peer ratings of extraversion and neuroticism served as criterion measures. The factor deleted by PFDT more closely reflected neuroticism than impression management. Factors resulting from PFDT were considerably less valid and less content saturated than those emerging from an ordinary factor solution. The implications of these results are discussed from the perspectives of predictive and construct validity. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Peter Borkenau Abteilung Psychologie Universität Bielefeld Postfach 8640 D-4800 Bielefeld West Germany |
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