Psychological Development and Education ›› 2007, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (3): 107-111.

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A Study on the Social Desirability Responding in the Junior Middle School Students’ Honesty Test

WU Yan1, XU Jian-ping1,2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062;
    2. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2007-07-15 Published:2007-07-15

Abstract: This study aimed to detect how would SDR work on the honesty test in different desirability conditions.It used MCSD and CSD to examine 246 junior middle school students, who were divided into high, medium, and low groups according to the level of the desirability motivation.Then, it used the direction words to set the high desirability condition, the medium, and the low, and investigated the different behaviors of the three-group subjects on an honesty test under three different conditions by using a 3×3 design of two-factor.The result showed that the lower desirability motivation subjects were always more honest than the higher ones, but the differences were not significant in all conditions.For the lower desirability motivation subjects, there were not significant differences among the three different conditions on the honesty test; but for the higher desirability motivation subjects, the differences were significant,which showed that the anterior group more liked to comply with their opinions inside, the posterior group more liked to comply with the value outside.

Key words: junior middle school students, personality variable, social desirability responding, desirability condition, honesty test

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