Social desirability does not confound reports of wellbeing or of socio-demographic attributes by older women
Social desirability does not confound reports of wellbeing or of socio-demographic attributes by older women
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DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x10001029
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发表时间：
2011-04-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Jeste, Dilip V.
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作者：
Dawes, Sharron E.;Palmer, Barton W.;Jeste, Dilip V.
本研究评估了社会期望反应偏差与自我报告的身体，心理和认知健康，成功老龄化，以及社会人口统计学属性之间的关系，其中1,860名老年妇女在加州大学，圣地亚哥的临床中心的妇女健康倡议和山姆和玫瑰斯坦研究所老龄化。这些妇女年龄在57岁至91岁之间，住在圣地亚哥社区。措施包括十项马洛-克朗社会期望量表，和自我报告量表的身体，心理和认知健康，成功的老龄化和福祉，以及标准的社会人口属性。双变量相关和多元回归模型表明，社会可取性分数与自我报告的敌意，焦虑，感知压力和自我报告的认知失败的水平呈负相关，他们预测额外的方差在多元回归分析模型只包含社会人口预测。另一方面，即使是最强的关联也通常被认为是“小影响”（r < 0.30）。总体而言，虽然研究结果支持的一般有效性的自我报告的措施，在研究中的正常和成功的老龄化，考虑社会的可取性反应偏见的解释自我报告的低水平的一些关键结构（焦虑，敌意，压力，自我认知缺陷）是必要的。
This study assesses the relationship of social desirability response bias with self-reported physical, mental and cognitive health, successful ageing, and socio-demographic attributes among 1,860 older women at the University of California, San Diego's Clinical Center for the Women's Health Initiative and the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging. The women were aged between 57 and 91 years and lived in the San Diego community. Measures included a ten-item Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, and self-report scales of physical, mental and cognitive health, successful ageing and wellbeing, as well as standard socio-demographic attributes. Bivariate correlation and multiple regression models indicated that social desirability scores negatively associated with self-reported levels of hostility, anxiety, perceived stress and self-reported cognitive failures, and that they predicted additional variance in multiple regression analyses above models containing socio-demographic predictors alone. On the other hand, even the strongest associations were what are generally considered 'small effects' (r < 0.30). Overall, while the findings support the general validity of most of the self-report measures in studies of normal and successful ageing, consideration of social desirability response bias in the interpretation of self-reports of low levels of some key constructs (anxiety, hostility, stress, self-perceived cognitive deficits) is warranted.