background: social desirability may affect different aspects of people’s quality of life. one of the impressive dimensions of quality of life is mental health. the prevalence of minor psychiatric disorders (mpd) among health care workers is higher than other health workers. this article aims at evaluating the relationship between social desirability and mpd among nurses in southern iran. method...

Although many studies have focused on the effects of social desirability in personality measures, few have analysed its effects on such highly undesirable behaviour as aggressiveness. The present study analyzes the impact of social desirability on measures of direct and indirect aggression and on the relationships between both kinds of aggression with impulsivity, using a method that enables th...

The purpose of this study is to further examine the relationships among hopelessness, social desirability, and suicidal behavior in the decade-long dispute about the role of social desirability and the ability of the Beck Hopelessness Scale to predict suicidal behavior. Using a stratified random sample of state prison inmates, we found that hopelessness and suicidal behavior remain significantl...

Implementation issues in chemistry and transport models S. E. Strahan and B. C. Polansky University of Maryland, Baltimore County Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, 5523 Research Park Dr., Suite 320, Baltimore, MD, 21 228, USA Science Systems and Applications, Inc., 10210 Greenbelt Rd., Suite 600, Lanham, MD, 20 706, USA Received: 2 September 2005 – Accepted: 28 September 2005 – Publi...

The present study aims to shed some light on an old controversy about the joint impact of acquiescence and social desirability on item responses. There are two main hypotheses: (a) of the two biases, social desirability is by far the prime determinant, and (b) acquiescence operates in all sorts of items, including those impacted by social desirability. A new methodology is harnessed to assess t...