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Rick:
You may want to suggest your student investigate the correlations between social desirability and the individual subscales' of self-monitoring (Other-Directedness, Extraversion, and Acting, assuming he/she used Snyder's (1974) revised Self-Monitoring Scale). Perhaps only one of these shows a negative correlation.
-Max Gwynn
Maxwell Gwynn, PhD
Undergraduate Advisor Department of Psychology Wilfrid Laurier University 75 University Avenue West Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada A student of mine is doing a research project with a military sample and
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she has found a pretty strong negative correlation (about a third of the variance shared) between Snyder's Self-monitoring scale and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scale. This correlation is not the main point of her hypothesis (which is that the military sample will have a higher rate of Social Desirability than the population) but it is quite puzzling. It would seem that the two scales should be positively correlated. Of course, the first check was to see if the scales might somehow be reversed but that doesn't seem to be the case. Any ideas? Rick Dr. Rick Froman Professor of Psychology John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (479) 524-7295 http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
- Re: Unexpected neg corr between Self-monitoring and Social ... Maxwell Gwynn
