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DESIRABILITY RESPONSE SET IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
EYSENCK SYBIL B. G.,
SYED I. A.,
EYSENCK H. J.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1966.tb01843.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , psychology , extraversion and introversion , eysenck personality questionnaire , personality , developmental psychology , test (biology) , big five personality traits , social psychology , paleontology , biology
S ummary . The junior form of the Eysenck Personality Inventory, measuring extraversion, neuroticism and tendency to lie, was administered to two groups of children totalling 575, both boys and girls, ranging in age from 11–15. Children in the control group were tested and retested under identical instructions; children in the experimental group were tested under standard instructions but retested under instructions to ‘ fake good.’ As predicted there were highly significant changes in the experimental group towards greater lying and less neuroticism; there were no changes in extraversion as compared to the control group. Test/retest reliability in the experimental, as compared with the control group, were slightly lower for extraversion, considerably lower for neuroticism and very much lower for the lie scale. The results were interpreted as giving evidence that social desirability response set was unlikely to have accounted for more than a small portion of the variance in the original test scores.