The importance and efficacy of controlling for social desirability response bias

IF 1.8 3区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Ethics & Behavior Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI:10.1080/10508422.2022.2093201
Richard A. Bernardi, Jonathan Nash
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ABSTRACT The extant literature acknowledges social desirability response bias (SDRB) is a pervasive issue for research that uses survey data and proposes several approaches to mitigating the issue, including: self-administered questionnaires, indirect questioning, and direct measurement. The objective of this study is to provide empirical evidence related to the importance of controlling for SDRB and the efficacy of these approaches. Using a primary sample of 365 business majors, we find the most common methodologies used to control for SDRB, self-administered questionnaires and indirect questions, are insufficient. A direct measure of SDRB remains significant when these approaches are used, and the exclusion of this measure affects the significance of other variables. Less than 5% of accounting-and-ethics research using survey data includes a direct control for SDRB. Our study provides empirical evidence on a methodological issue addressed in few existing studies.
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控制社会期望反应偏差的重要性和有效性
现有文献承认社会期望反应偏差(SDRB)在使用调查数据的研究中是一个普遍存在的问题,并提出了几种缓解这一问题的方法,包括:自我管理问卷、间接提问和直接测量。本研究的目的是提供与控制SDRB的重要性和这些方法的有效性相关的经验证据。通过对365名商科专业学生的初步抽样,我们发现用于控制SDRB的最常用方法,即自我管理问卷和间接问题,是不够的。当使用这些方法时,SDRB的直接度量仍然是重要的,并且排除该度量会影响其他变量的重要性。在使用调查数据的会计与伦理研究中,只有不到5%的研究包括对SDRB的直接控制。我们的研究为现有研究中很少涉及的方法论问题提供了经验证据。
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