Social Desirability Response Bias in the Organizational Assessment Package.

Abstract

This thesis investigated the intervening effects social desirability response bias has upon respondent scores for the Air Force Organizational Assessment Package (OAP). The analysis uses bivariate correlation, analysis of variance, and linear regression techniques to determine whether this bias influences supervisory ratings (OAP factors 818 and 819), organizational ratings (OAP factors 820, 821, and 824), and the Organizational Job Inventory (OAP factor 808). The indices used to measure individual social desirability response bias were the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Index and the RD16. Results of the analysis found the OAP was influenced by this type of bias in the three areas examined. Regression analysis revealed no reasonable predictors within the current OAP for determining a respondent's degree of response bias. (Author)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA111196

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