SOCIAL DESIRABILITY RESPONSE SET AND SYSTEMATIC DISTORTION IN THE SELF-REPORT OF ADULT MALE GENDER PATIENTS
SOCIAL DESIRABILITY RESPONSE SET AND SYSTEMATIC DISTORTION IN THE SELF-REPORT OF ADULT MALE GENDER PATIENTS
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DOI：
10.1007/bf01541751
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发表时间：
1985-01-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
STEINER, BW
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作者：
BLANCHARD, R;CLEMMENSEN, LH;STEINER, BW
本研究表明，异性恋男性性别焦虑的“社会期望”表现是强调“经典”变性欲症的特征和行为特征。对51名同性恋和64名异性恋成年男性患者进行了crown - marlowe（1964）社会期望量表以及8项问卷测量，这些问卷测量利用了通常在鉴别诊断中很重要的临床病史的各种特征。异性恋受试者用道德卓越或令人钦佩的个人品质来描述自己的倾向，与所有八项性学测量中“变性”方向的得分显著相关；对于同性恋者，只有一种相关性是显著的。有人认为，最积极地想给审查员留下好印象的病人，很可能是那些最急于获得变性手术批准的人。因为，在这个人群中，社会期望的表现是“女性化的”，异性恋变性者和异装癖者产生的历史差异有可能被后者获得手术批准的动机夸大到未知的程度。这些发现并没有减少这两组之间的重要区别，但它们确实建议在解释用于比较他们的自我报告数据时要谨慎。
This study showed that the "socially desirable" presentation for a heterosexual male gender dysphoric is one that emphasizes traits and behaviors characteristic of "classic" transsexualism. Fifty-one homosexual and 64 heterosexual adult male gender patients were administered the Crowne-Marlowe (1964) Social Desirability Scale as well as eight questionnaire measures that tapped various features of the clinical history commonly given great weight in differential diagnosis. The tendency for a heterosexual subject to describe himself in terms of moral excellence or admirable personal qualities was significantly correlated with scores in the "transsexual" direction on all eight sexological measures; for the homosexual subjects, only one correlation was significant. It is argued that the patients most motivated to create a favorable impression on the examiner are likely to be those most anxious to obtain approval for sex reassignment surgery. Because, in this population, the socially desirable presentation is "feminine", it is possible that the differences in the histories produced by transvestites and heterosexual transsexuals are exaggerated to an unknonwn degree by the motivation of the latter to obtain approval for the operation. The findings do not diminish the important distinction between these groups, but they do suggest caution in interpreting the self-report data that have been used in comparing them.