First, all measures were based on retrospective self - report data, subject to recall and
social desirability biases.
In regards to measures, both interview and self - report measures are prone to
social desirability biases, which could have influenced the findings.
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.
Second, the present study was limited by its exclusive use of self - report instruments which are susceptible to response and
social desirability biases.
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.
The reasons we can't just ASK people how their affairs begin is because of hindsight bias,
social desirability bias and participation bias (read my methods section before taking it out of context).
Authors noted a potential risk of
social desirability bias, as the intervention was delivered by the first author.
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.
Social desirability bias is a problem which might be overcome by researchers building rapport with the voters who they are interviewing.
This phenomenon is also referred to as «
social desirability bias» and is a well - known feature of survey research: survey respondents are reluctant to provide answers they think the interviewer, or society at large, might disapprove of.
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.
The improvements here could have been due to
a social desirability bias.
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.
One obvious limitation of questionnaires is that they are subject to faking, and therefore, to
social desirability bias.
To the extent that
social desirability bias is uniform within a group under study, it will inflate individual responses but not alter their rank order.
Unlike self - reported data, this anonymized and aggregated data eliminates factors like
social desirability bias, and makes the Legal Trends Report a uniquely trustworthy window into the legal world.»
The social desirability bias can have a pernicious effect on surveys that rely on self - reported data, and legal is no exception.
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.
The reasons we can't just ASK people how their affairs begin is because of hindsight bias,
social desirability bias and participation bias (read my methods section before taking it out of context).
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: (1) cross-sectional data, limiting scope for causal inference, (2) lack of data by tobacco type or volume of use and (3) data from a reproductive health survey may suffer from
social desirability bias.
However, the implications of items on tests with clear face validity is that they are more vulnerable to
social desirability bias.
Until such methodological problems can be overcome, reliance will have to be placed on a variety of sources of information, including retrospective data, to study G × E. Third, we used a self - report measure of aggression, and
the social desirability bias of some subjects might have affected their self - reporting of aggression.
Offering anonymity on self - administered questionnaires should further reduce social pressure, and thus may likewise reduce
social desirability bias.
Due to inaccurate recall or
social desirability bias, it is likely that some participants with reportedly effective total smoking bans are still being exposed to second - hand smoke.
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.
Dr. Graham continues, «And there's another concern: on the flip side to
social desirability bias, sometimes as students begin to better understand a construct, they actually rate themselves more harshly, which is a threat to the validity of a longitudinal analysis.
Social desirability bias was lower or similar to that of other comparable scales.
Due to potential
social desirability bias in reporting parenting behavior, only a youth - report instrument was developed.
Given the likely influence of
social desirability bias on parent report of this construct, we elected to develop a youth - report measure of collaborative parent involvement.
Not exact matches
As such, recall
bias or
social desirability may have influenced fathers» responses.
Maternal self - report of data could have been prone to
bias and non-differential misclassification because of the tendency of women to be influenced by their
social preferences and or
social desirability; thus, women may have over-reported their value and duration of exclusive breastfeeding.
A key strength of the project is the use of administrative data, which avoids the use of self - reports of drinking behaviours, which may be
biased due to retrospective recall and
social desirability.
Second, our study exposure is based on maternal self - report; therefore, we may be underestimating the prevalence of IPV owing to
social desirability or recall
bias.
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).
Such a «
social desirability»
bias seems unlikely, given that the associations were independent of family socioeconomic status.
Impacts of
social desirability response
bias on sexuality care of cancer patients among Chinese nurses
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.
These may reflect
biases such as
social desirability, and differ from the views of fathers and other carers.
Self - report measures are highly subjective and they increase the possibility of
social -
desirability biases [55].
Second, although PA was assessed with a valid and reliable measure, it was nonetheless obtained through self - report methods, which is inherently
biased by
social desirability.
Fourth, as the data were collected by students» self - reporting, the effects of
social desirability and self - serving
biases should be taken into consideration.