Big Five Measurement via Q-Sort: An Alternative Method for Constraining Socially Desirable Responding

SAGE Open

Chris D. Fluckinger¹ 

关键词: psychology;    social sciences;    applied psychology;    industrial/organizational psychology;    assessment;    clinical psychology;    measurement;    scaling methods;    research methods;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244014547196

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Socially desirable responding presents a difficult challenge in measuring personality. I tested whether a partially ipsative measure—a normatively scored Q-sort containing traditional Big Five items—would produce personality scores indicative of less socially desirable responding compared with Likert-based measures. Across both instructions to respond honestly and in the context of applying for a job, the Q-sort produced lower mean scores, lower intercorrelations between dimensions, and similar validity in predicting supervisor performance ratings to Likert. In addition, the Q-sort produced a more orthogonal structure (but not fully orthogonal) when modeled at the latent level. These results indicate that the Q-sort method did constrain socially desirable responding. Researchers and practitioners should consider Big Five measurement via Q-sort for contexts in which high socially desirable responding is expected.

【 授权许可】

CC BY