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How response bias affects the factorial structure of personality self-reports

  • Datos identificativos

    Identificador: PC:2905
    Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC2905
  • Autores:

    Lorenzo-Seva, U.
    Navarro-González, D.
    Vigil-Colet, A.
  • Otros:

    Autor según el artículo: Lorenzo-Seva, U.; Navarro-González, D.; Vigil-Colet, A.
    Departamento: Psicologia
    Autor/es de la URV: LORENZO SEVA, URBANO; Navarro-González, D.; VIGIL COLET, ANDRÉS
    Palabras clave: response bias personality factor structure
    Resumen: Background: Various studies have shown that acquiescence can distort the factor structure of personality questionnaires based on the fi vefactor model. In the present study, we analysed how acquiescence and social desirability affect the factor structure of a measure based on this personality model and a measure of aggression. Method: We analysed the factor structures of both tests before and after removing both biases in a sample of 532 adolescents aged between 11 and 18 (M= 14.75, SD= 2.1). Results: The factor structure of both tests presented a worse fi t to the expected model when response bias was not controlled, and the congruence indexes for the personality and aggression measures showed a moderate (from C= .948 to C= .872) or great (from C= .931 to C= .475) decrease, respectively. Furthermore, acquiescence was largely responsible for these effects, and social desirability effects were only shown on the aggression measure. Conclusions: Response bias, and especially acquiescence, should be controlled during the development of personality measures to avoid distorting them, especially with samples of people with a high level of acquiescence (for example, those with little education, the young or the elderly). Furthermore, the use of response bias loadings as a criterion for choosing the items minimizes those distortions.
    Grupo de investigación: Escalament de Variables Psicològiques i Desenvolupament de Qüestionaris
    Áreas temáticas: Psicologia Psicología Psychology
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 0214-9915
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-5369-3099; ; 0000-0003-3818-4514
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2017-06-13
    Página final: 470
    Volumen de revista: 28
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: http://www.psicothema.com/psicothema.asp?id=4351
    Programa de financiación: altres; SGR; 2014SGR73 altres; MEC; PSI2014-52884-P
    DOI del artículo: 10.7334/psicothema2016.113
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2016
    Página inicial: 465
    Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article
  • Palabras clave:

    Tests psicològics
    Personalitat--Tests
    response bias
    personality
    factor structure
    Psicologia
    Psicología
    Psychology
    0214-9915
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