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Impression Management and Self-Deceptive Enhancement among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Navy Recruits
- Source :
- The Journal of Social Psychology. 132:323-329
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1992.
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Abstract
- As part of a larger investigation of response effects on organizational surveys, the present study compared the responses of Hispanic and non-Hispanic U.S. Navy recruits on the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR). The inventory contains two measures of socially desirable responding: impression management, the deliberate tendency to over-report desirable behaviors and under-report undesirable ones, and self-deceptive enhancement, the tendency to give overly positive but honest self-reports. Hispanic recruits had significantly higher scores than non-Hispanic Whites on impression management; the two groups did not, however, differ on self-deceptive enhancement. These findings suggest that Hispanics may be more likely than non-Hispanic Whites to present a positive picture of themselves to others but do not differ from non-Hispanic Whites on the amount of positive self-deceptive enhancement they engage in. The results were interpreted with reference to the Hispanic cultural value of simp...
Details
- ISSN :
- 19401183 and 00224545
- Volume :
- 132
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........38122e078d59a37f6fde473829a51075