Measures of desirability beliefs and their validity as indicators for socially desirable responding

Field Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 313-336

  Stocké, Volker ^a   Hunkler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monotony assumption; Neutrality assumption; Response bias; Social desirability; Trait desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749121502     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X07302102     Document Type: Article

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