This study examined whether controlling for social desirability improved the association between self-reported and objectively measured physical activity among adolescent males and the extent that psychosocial variables predict physical activity after controlling for social desirability. Participants (n=447) were 10- to 14-year old Houston Boy Scouts. Participants completed self-reports of phys...

Previous studies that have directly manipulated outcome desirability have often found little effect on likelihood judgments (i.e., no desirability bias or wishful thinking). The present studies tested whether selections of new information about outcomes would be impacted by outcome desirability, thereby biasing likelihood judgments. In Study 1, participants made predictions about novel outcomes...

The capability of estimating emotions is an important feature needed for intelligent systems to interact with humans. . In this paper, we propose a computational model to calculate a user’s desirability as one of the most important emotions, especially in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). The main purpose of this research is to find a relationship between personality and desirability in virtu...

BACKGROUND These studies sought to investigate the relation between social desirability and self-reported health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol use, drug use, smoking) in web-based research. METHODS Three longitudinal studies (Study 1: N = 5612, 51% women; Study 2: N = 619, 60%; Study 3: N = 846, 59%) among randomly selected members of two online panels (Dutch; German) using several social des...

The Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale (MAST) was designed to assess suicidal tendencies in youth. This 30-item scale has four types of attitudes: attraction to life, repulsion by life, attraction to death, and repulsion by death. Normative, factor structure, and psychometric data were investigated with American youth with a range of suicidal ideations and behaviors. The reported factor stru...

The aim of this work was to evaluate and optimize formulation of three-layer matrix tablets based on xanthan gum (XG) and sodium alginate for chronotherapeutic pH-independent release of verapamil HCl (VH). Artificial neural networks (ANN) were applied in the optimization and compared with multiple linear regression (MLR). A face-centered central composite experimental design was employed with t...

BACKGROUND & AIM Addiction leads to many problems which may adversely affect addicted people, their families and impose health care agencies with many challenges. This study aimed to examined quality of life (QoL), social desirability and their relationship among opium addicted persons in southeast of Iran. MATERIAL & METHODS In a cross-sectional study conducted from September 2012 to January...

The desirability relation was introduced by Isbell (1958) to qualitatively compare the a priori influence of voters in a simple game. In this paper, we extend this desirability relation to simple games with coalition structure. In these games, players organize themselves into a priori disjoint coalitions. It appears that the desirability relation defined in this paper is a complete preorder in ...

Three studies were conducted to construct and validate a bidimensional scale of social value adapted to the personological description of young pupils (social desirability and social utility). In a first study, 142 teachers-in-training were invited to describe pupils they knew, assigning each pupil three personality traits from a list of 150 traits. The results led us to retain 24 traits, compo...

The aim of the present study was to examine the validity of Prosocial Tendency Measure (PTM) in Iranian students. This scale measures 6 types of prosocial tendencies including altruistic, anonymous, dire, emotional, compliant and public prosocial tendencies (Carlo and Randal, 2002). We used 182 undergraduate students in order to study the validity of the scale by confirmatory factor analysis me...