Due to potential social
desirability bias in reporting parenting behavior, only a youth - report instrument was developed.
For instance, high levels of relationship satisfaction can involve positive distortions (Fowers & Olson, 1993), or what Edmonds (1967) viewed as social
desirability bias in relationship quality.
Not exact matches
Morning Consult had conducted a study
in December 2015 that produced evidence for a theory of «shy» Trump voters who experience social
desirability bias during telephone interviews — that is, they don't want to admit they're voting for Trump.
Social
desirability bias is a social science research term that describes the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions
in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.
See response
bias, and
in particular social
desirability bias.
It's possible that social
desirability bias, or the tendency to act
in way that is viewed as desirable, masked the true intentions of participants.
Due to what's called the social
desirability bias, men and women have the tendency to present themselves
in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.
ACE thinks that some of HLL's early studies were not conducted as well as they could have been, and that there were problems
in some of the write - ups of those studies.262 For example, HLL conducted five studies with the same participant pool, which might have caused the results of some of those studies to be influenced by earlier experimental manipulations.263 Some studies also did not include appropriate control groups, and many studies did not control for
desirability bias.264 We think these early studies helped influence animal advocates to see research into animal advocacy methods as possible and desirable, but that their utility is otherwise limited by some of their design flaws.
Social
desirability bias is a social science research term that describes a type of response
bias that is the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions
in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.
While social
desirability bias could lead some spouses to increase their ratings of their marriage, it would also have
biased people not to have made such low rating
in the first place, unless they were truly unhappy at the time of the first survey.
Ratings of marital happiness could also be affected by another type of
bias, social
desirability bias,
in which respondents give answers that are too positive
in an effort to portray themselves
in a positive light.
Some ways
in which
biases may contaminate reports of growth are: social
desirability,
biases in cognitive reconstruction, downward comparisons and effects of subsequent events and interactions (Pyszczynski & Greenberg, 1992).
Parents completed the questionnaire and may be influenced by social
desirability bias given the increasing role of social media
in shaping community perceptions and public discourse on obesity.
To avoid the social
desirability bias, all data were collected by a junior doctor doing a clinical rotation
in primary care medicine, while the doctors of those primary care clinics had no access to the data.
Limitations include lack of randomization of participants, generalizability to other populations
in other states, and both pretest designs could be affected by social
desirability and justification
biases.
Obtaining the perspective of multiple informants — that is, both the child and parent — will also be important,
in part because social
desirability biases may lead parents to overestimate their own monitoring.
In regards to measures, both interview and self - report measures are prone to social
desirability biases, which could have influenced the findings.