Socially Desirable Responding in Organizational Behavior: A Reconception
重新审视组织研究中社会期望回应(SDR)的角色,认为SDR并非总是污染,而可能包含内容变异,并提出自我欺骗和印象管理的双成分模型,对测量和控制SDR有启示。
Socially desirable responding (SDR) refers to presenting oneself favorably regarding current social norms and standards. While SDR has concerned organizational researchers as a contaminant in self-assessment, it is argued here that such a presumption is inappropriate and that SDR may represent content variance in some settings. Further, a two-component model of SDR as self-deception and impression management is presented. One or both components of SDR may be related conceptually to the variable of interest such that indiscriminate control of SDR removes the predictive power of a measure. Implications of this reconception are considered for measuring and controlling SDR in organizational research. The distinction between self-deception and impression management is used to clarify a number of theoretical issues.