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Sanz-Garcia et al. (2022) developed a psychopathy scale (NEO-PS) based on the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, but did not examine its internal structure. Due to the deception/manipulation characteristic of psychopathy, its self-report measures can be highly affected by social desirability (SD). In the Study 1, the internal structure of the NEO-PS was analyzed in a Spanish community sample of 682 adults and in Study 2, its relationship to SD with a similar sample of 239 adults. The NEO-PS presented a structure of three correlated factors (Interpersonal, Affective, and Lifestyle) similar to those of Hare's model of psychopathy. Significant negative and medium-large correlations were found between the NEO-PS and SD (r=-.38/-.66), but did not affect the internal structure of the NEO-PS. The NEO-PS provides valid measures of psychopathy in Spanish adults assessed in situations where individuals have no direct interest in distorting their responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Understanding the perceptions of nursing workers from Intensive Care Units regarding the appreciation of their work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Descriptive, qualitative research, conducted with nurses and nursing technicians from Intensive Care Units for COVID-19 patients of a public hospital in Minas Gerais. Semistructured interviews were carried out from January to February 2022, recorded in audio and submitted to an inductive analysis. Results: 15 nurses and 13 technicians participated. They highlighted the temporary appreciation received during the pandemic, their disbelief in the continuity of this appreciation, feelings of disrepute, distinction between professional classes, patient disrespect, multiple jobs, hoping for a higher wage floor and a lower hour load. Conclusion: It was essential to ensure dignified conditions, emotional support, payment, and fair work hours. The efforts and knowledge of these professionals must be recognized as they are essential for any level of health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objetivo: Conocer la percepción de usuarios de los servicios de salud de tres comunas de Chile sobre la visibilidad social de los profesionales de enfermería durante el período de la pandemia de COVID-19. Material y Método: Estudio cualitativo descriptivo que utilizó la técnica del grupo focal. Se realizó un grupo focal con un muestreo de tipo intencionado conformado por siete participantes cuyos criterios de inclusión fueron ser usuarios del sistema de salud de Chile y mayor de 18 años. El reclutamiento de los participantes fue realizado por un afiche en redes sociales de la institución académica. La estrategia de análisis fue el de contenido. Resultados: Se encontraron tres temas y siete subtemas: la visibilidad de la profesión (imaginarios sociales, valoración de la labor, invisibilidad), primera línea (revaloración de los profesionales, seguridad y confianza) y género (profesión feminizada, invisibilidad). Conclusiones: Bajo el actual contexto de salubridad, la visibilidad de la enfermería se ha sostenido por situaciones que justamente son asociadas a la invisibilidad, salud mental, cargas laborales, cuestiones de género, entre otras. Se sugiere la realización de investigaciones que demuestren y difundan el importante rol de los profesionales de enfermería en la sociedad y promuevan su reconocimiento.

The Antisocial Self-Report (ASR-13) was developed to assess a general antisocial personality factor. However, because antisocial traits are socially aversive, the ASR-13 scores can be potentially contaminated by social desirability in high-stakes testing situations. In the present study, we performed an in-depth analysis of the ASR-13 to determine which items may be subject to socially desirable responding when used for data collection in prison settings. Participants were 324 college students, and 20 male prisoners. A Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model suggested three items were especially prone to eliciting socially desirable responding. We found evidence that prisoners likely attenuated their scores when rating items with content that is related to illegal behaviors. We discuss the implications of the findings, and how they help understand the latent processes that cause item responses to the ASR-13 inventory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introducción: La satisfacción laboral es un tópico que sobresale en las organizaciones y empresas de salud, tomando en cuenta a los empleados como su activo más valioso. La satisfacción del desempeño laboral puede ser estudiada. El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar las variables sociodemográficas y las percepciones de los pediatras graduados de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) de su trabajo. Métodos: Se utilizó la encuesta de satisfacción laboral Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). El estudio es observacional, descriptivo y transversal, mediante un cuestionario online a los pediatras pertenecientes a las 8 promociones graduados de la PUCE. Resultados: De los 202 pediatras, 182 respondieron la encuesta (tasa 90.09 %). El 40.1 % son de 36-40 años, la mayoría son mujeres (73.62 %), el 49.5 % ejercen como pediatras entre 2 a 4 años. El 62.6 % trabaja en el sector público. Los resultados demostraron satisfacción laboral general media de 44 % y alta de 29.1 %, una satisfacción intrínseca media de 48.4 % y una satisfacción extrínseca media de 36.8 %. La permanencia en el lugar de trabajo de más de 4 años es el único factor significativamente asociado con experimentar satisfacción extrínseca alta. El reconocimiento social a través de los elogios determina satisfacción; mientras que, hay insatisfacción por el progreso en el ámbito laboral. Conclusiones: Esta investigación permite identificar la situación laboral de los pediatras graduados de la PUCE, lo que puede ayudar a identificar medidas de mejora. La encuesta señala que la satisfacción se localiza en un nivel moderado a no completamente satisfecho. La permanencia en el empleo constituye la variable de mayor significación para los especialistas.

Objective: To report the experience of the first Santa Casa do Brasil to receive certification the Quality Seal, of the National Quality Program, of the Federal Nursing Council. Methods: Report on the experience of a highly complex philanthropic hospital. The process was conducted by a team composed of nurse managers, coordinators and nurses residing in health, between December 2018 and December 2019. Description of the experience: The process started with the knowledge of the proposal for certification and the realization of a situational diagnosis by the Patient Safety Center, in order to identify the potentialities, weaknesses and needs for institutional improvements. The commission's first visit was challenging and provided guidance on the necessary adjustments. In the second on-site assessment, the quality seal was achieved, but new adjustments continue to be made to improve services. Final considerations: The participation of nursing professionals in this process motivated nursing in the appropriation of their skills and empowerment to overcome institutional challenges, favoring the achievement of visibility, professional qualification and better working conditions for the category. This process helped to regain the professionals' self-esteem and contributed to bringing them closer to the class council. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To understand the meanings surrounding the theme "professional valorization" and its implications for the actions and thinking of the subjects involved. Methods: This is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach anchored, mainly, in the theory of Symbolic Interactionism by Blumer and in the postulates of Bardin's Content Analysis. Data collection took place through semi-structured interviews, with professionals and students from the various areas of nursing practice, whose central question was "What is professional valorization for you?". The dialogues were recorded and later transcribed, analyzed and categorized using the Atlas.ti software. Results: Based on the statements, it was possible to group them into categories, namely: political engagement, social feedback, investment of resources, interpersonal relationships and professional achievement. All of these categories were listed due to the direct relationship with the theme of professional valorization since the great importance of these factors was evidenced to instigate the feeling of feeling valued. Conclusion: According to the theories discussed, it was possible to ratify the interference of professional experiences and challenges in the conceptions and judgments about the central motto of this study. Moreover, the focus on political engagement and social feedback was shown to be effective ways of achieving appreciation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An extended theory of planned behaviour was used to explain children's self-reported recycling behaviour with an inclusion of parental behaviour and two background factors of child gender and social desirability. Ninety-nine pupils aged 8–11 years and one parent of each participated in the study. Children took part in structured one-on-one interviews, where they responded to questions about their recycling behaviour, willingness (desire) to recycle, environmental attitudes, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control. Parents provided their answers on the compatible behavioural items. In addition, children responded to questions from the short version of the Children's Social Desirability scale. For the analysis, three models were tested step by step. In the final model, where background factors were introduced, parental behaviour remained the only predictor of child behaviour, while pupils' willingness to recycle remained to be determined by the perceived behavioural control only. Conclusions and implications regarding study findings are provided in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper was assessing tobacco use in adolescents of Buenos Aires City and its relation to socio demographic characteristics and social desirability (SD). Participants were 302 schooled adolescents of ages between 13 and 18 years (M = 15.57, SD = 1.75; 45.4% female). Results showed that nearly half of them (41.7%) had try a cigarette once. Of them, 27.2% currently used tobacco, 62% were light users and 3% were severe users. Age of onset was 10 years old or less for 34.9% and between 11 and 15 years old for 51.6%. Most of the adolescents used tobacco for recreational purposes. Also, those who stated to had tried tobacco, those who had used less tan 100 cigarettes in their life and those who said to not be bothered by tobacco smoke showed higher valued of SD in contrast to the rest. The number of cigarettes used was positively related to SD. Those adolescents which the majority of their friends smoke had higher SD. No associations were found between SD age of onset, motive for starting smoking, opinion of what smoking tobacco is, nor information received regarding tobacco. Results are discussed regarding: the problems linked to tobacco consumption; the need of liking others and behaving according to what is expected; theories of cognitive growth and group conformity Consumo de tabaco en adolescentes bonaerenses: su relación con variables sociodemográficas y la deseabilidad social [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aimed at determining the association between life satisfaction and subjective happiness while controlling for social desirability, and to explore whether overall satisfaction with life can be predicted by satisfaction with life dimensions while controlling for social desirability. The study had a quantitative, non-experimental cross-sectional design, with 279 participants from different universities of the Council of Rectors of Chile recruited through a non-probabilistic sampling method for convenience. The participants completed an online questionnaire that inquired about their global and dimensional satisfaction with life, subjective happiness, social desirability, and sociode-mographic variables. The data was analysed using partial correlations and multiple regression analyses. Bivariate correlation results indicate weak and direct associations between social desirability and life satisfaction and subjective happiness, and a strong and direct association between the latter. According to the results of the partial correlation analysis, the association between life satisfaction and subjective happiness is maintained even when social convenience is controlled. The results of the multiple regression analyses indicate that although social desirability predicts life satisfaction by itself, when satisfaction with life dimensions is added to the model, social desirability loses its predictive power. In conclusion, although social desirability is associated with the two components, affective and cognitive, of subjective well-being, this association loses predictive power when other variables are considered in predictive models. Study limitations include a relatively low reliability score on the social desirability scale, possible bias due to the study's self-report design and sampling method used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El objetivo de la investigación fue obtener evidencias de las propiedades psicométricas de las puntuaciones derivadas de aplicar la escala de deseabilidad social de Marlowe y Crowne a una población de 28 972 docentes de segundo grado de primaria evaluada en el Perú, la cual estuvo conformada por distintos estratos, como el tipo de gestión (74% estatales y 26% no estatales) y la ubicación geográfica (urbana 65% y rural 35%). Los análisis psicométricos se realizaron en dos muestras de 5000 casos cada una, con características similares a la población. Además, se describe y comparan la deseabilidad social de los docentes. Los resultados permitieron obtener evidencias de validez vinculadas a la estructura interna del instrumento aplicando análisis factoriales exploratorios y confirmatorios que apoyaron la unidimensionalidad del instrumento. Para analizar la confiabilidad del instrumento se evaluaron los modelos de medición, y se notó que el congenérico era el que mejor caracterizaba a los ítems, por ello se calculó la confiabilidad a través de los coeficientes omega que alcanzaron valores entre .83 y .87, adicionalmente se incluyeron los intervalos de confianza, los errores estándar de medición, los baremos por rangos percentilares. Para realizar las comparaciones de los puntajes de la DS por estrato se analizó la invarianza del instrumento, encontrándose que no se observaron diferencias estadísticas significativas. Doi: https://doi.org/10.24265/liberabit.2017.v23n2.03

One challenge of self-report assessments is response styles, individual preferences for some of the options in a given response scale that might bias the true latent trait level of the respondent. Socially desirable responding consists of one individual making efforts to display oneself in a favorable manner given perceived social values. Three factor models of social desirability have received attention, with two and three factors, and the last one two factors and four facets (or four-factor model). In the present study, we explore the extent to which these three factor models represent the structure of the Impression Management and Self-Deception Scale-IPIP. Participants were 466 adults (M = 25.22 years, DP = 7.05, 60.27% females). The four-factor model yielded the best fit to the data, but the original two-factor structure resulted in the simpler and clearer factor solution. Implications of these findings as to the scoring and interpretation of the instrument are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Analysis on the importance of performing optimum selective process of candidates Armed Forces offcers and NCO's. Objetive: To assess the frequency of the psychological evaluations performed to candidates offcers and NCO's and the variables involved, as well as to describe the normative context and the diffculties that may arise. Material and method: Observational, transversal and retrospective study of candidates offcers and NCO's declared as "provisionally not suitable" according to the Armed Forces Personality Inventory (IPFAS) carried out during July and August 2016. These people were assessed at the Reconnaissance Unit located in HCD Gomez Ulla in order to determine if they met the medical exclusion criteria according to existing legislation. Results: 114 candidates out of a total of 1542 (7.39%) were identifed whose scores indicated personality misadjustments. For these individuals, the assessments consisted of clinical interview and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. 32 candidates were found "not suitable" (2.07% of the total). Conclussions: It would be convenient to take beneft from personality measurements provided by IPFAS in order to select future commanders based on possession of personal qualities or attributes related to professional success, regardless of the medical assessment exploring mental pathology, as well as coming up with a solution allowing to take a decision on the suitability of the candidates that distort and invalidate the tests as a consequence of a social desirability abnormally elevated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El presente estudio reporta la asociación divergente entre la deseabilidad social y las respuestas al mbi-gs y uwes, dos instrumentos que miden constructos considerados opuestos: burnout y engagement. Esta relación ha sido muy pocas veces explorada, y menos aun en sujetos hispanos. Los participantes fueron trabajadores de tiendas comerciales en la zona central de Lima Metropolitana. Se halló que la deseabilidad social comparte varianza con los puntajes de agotamiento emocional e indiferencia, pero esta relación estuvo influenciada por el instrumento de medición de la deseabilidad social. Las correlaciones parciales entre los puntajes del mbi no fueron prácticamente diferentes de sus correlaciones de orden cero. El uwes no covarió con deseabilidad social. Se concluye que la deseabilidad social tiene poca influencia sobre los puntajes orientados hacia el burnout en el mbi.

This study aimed to verify the existence of associations between character strengths, psychological welfare, social desirability and personality in children of 10 to12 years old. 518 children (254 boys and 263 girls) between 10 and 12 years old and attending public and private schools in the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) participated on this study. The following were administered: a socio–demographic survey; a survey to assess the PERMA ́s access to welfare theory five elements, the Virtues and Strengths Inventory for Children; Children’s Personality Questionnaire and Children’s Social Desirability Scale. The results showed that, as in previous studies, vitality, hope and curiosity were the strengths most associated with life satisfaction. At the same time, statistically significant correlations between the PERMA ́s access to welfare theory five elements (Seligman, 2011) and most of the character ́s strengths were found. Meanwhile, the strengths were also found associated with the Five Great Personality Factors model and social desirability. Finally, differences in the presence of the character strengths according to sex and age were found.

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la relación de los parámetros a , b y c del modelo logístico de tres parámetros y la tendencia de los individuos a atribuirse a sí mismo cualidades socialmente deseables. Participaron 1592 personas que respondieron las escalas Perseverancia y Distorsión del Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ). Se aplicó el ML3p a los ítems de perseverancia mediante el programa MULTILOG. Previamente se debieron eliminar 3 reactivos para cumplir con la condición de unidimensionalidad requerida por el modelo. Como la escala Likert de los ítems de perseverancia tiene 5 de alternativas se contemplaron diferentes procedimientos para establecer 4 condiciones de dicotomización de los datos. Los parámetros de los ítems se estimaron el procedimiento de Máxima Verosimilitud Marginal a Posteriori. El ajuste del ML3p fue adecuado para los 9 ítems analizados. Considerando las diferentes condiciones de dicotomización se identificaron entre 3 y 5 ítems de cuya respuesta clave se asoció a mayores niveles de Distorsión. Sin embargo, los resultados obtenidos no permiten concluir que la respuesta influida por la deseabilidad social repercuta sobre alguno de los parámetros estudiados. Se discuten las limitaciones del presente estudio y se comentan otras líneas de investigación que pueden guiar a futuros estudios.

Objective. This study sought to recognize the active and symbolic role played by the objects from the material world for nursing care in Spain between 1855 and 1955. Methodology. This was a historical study using procedures from founded theory. The information sources were eight handbooks for the formation of healthcare professionals published in Spain, during the period of interest. The information was gathered from March 2012 to June 2013. During this period, the sources were revised comprehensively and bibliographic information, description of instruments, and analysis files were made; methodological and analytic memoranda were written. Forty-five procedures and 360 material objects were registered. Results. The categories ''principal and secondary objects'' and ''guarded objects'' reveal the influence exerted by the objects from the material world for care. Conclusion. In Spain, between 1855 and 1955, nursing care was carried out within a scenario comprised of objects with secondary status and situated within the periphery of care, as well as by guarded objects that professionals could not use. This material world influenced the social recognition of healthcare professionals at the time and the visibility of their work.

Se aplicó el Modelo de Crédito Parcial (MCP) de la Teoría de Respuesta al Ítem al análisis de ítems de la adaptación española escala Distorsión del Big Five Questionnaire. Esta escala evalúa la tendencia de los individuos a ofrecer un perfil distorsionado. Participaron 1592 adultos de población general (55% sexo femenino). El análisis de los datos se realizó con Winsteps. El ajuste del MCP fue adecuado para todos los ítems; no obstante, un porcentaje considerable de evaluados no presentó un patrón de respuestas acorde a las expectativas del modelo. Cinco ítems presentaron inversiones en el orden esperable para los valores estimados de parámetros de umbral. Los resultados revelaron las debilidades que presenta la escala y orientan sobre posibles modificaciones futuras.

Este artículo explicita los problemas metodológicos y técnicos que aparecen cuando se construye unabase de datos sobre políticos que ocupan un puesto institucional de representación (alcaldías, concejalías,escaños parlamentarios). Tomando como ejemplo una base de datos sobre políticos autonómicos españoles(1980-2011), se discuten los criterios utilizados y las soluciones escogidas ante retos diversos: parsimonia,deseabilidad social, multicolinealidad futura, control de la temporalidad, ajuste a los resultados electorales,nivel de información y ciclos electorales. Se aportan algunos de los datos obtenidos y se relacionan con preguntas de investigación sobre la élite política que pueden ser respondidas con el análisis sistemático deuna base de datos.

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Several studies have shown that personality self-reports may be affected by response biases, and that this may have consequences on their factor structure, especially in samples with little education or in adolescents. The current study aims to understand the effect of social desirability and acquiescence on the factor structure of three questionnaires based on the Five Factor Model of personality: the Big Five Inventory, the Five Factor Personality Inventory and the Overall Personality Assessment Scale. The data was analysed using a new method that removes the effects of both social desirability and acquiescence from the inter-item correlation matrix used for factor analysis. These effects were assessed in a sample of 392 university students, which contained no individuals with low educational levels, children or adolescents. The results showed that, even in samples with no individuals with low educational levels, controlling for social desirability and acquiescence led to a simpler factor structure that is more congruent with the theoretical solution expected from the five factor model. It also seems that in the domain of inventories based upon the five factor model, this effect may be specially due to acquiescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study aimed to investigate the existence of social desirability bias in research on organizational values. 232 people participated in the survey, divided into two groups. Group 1 was composed of professionals that were invited to respond to the survey by the companies they worked for, with 147 people. They were informed that the company would receive a consolidated report on the results, without any individualized information. Group 2, with 85 people, consisted of professionals invited directly by a researcher and they were informed that the results would not enable their identification, neither the company they worked for. The instrument used was the Organizational Values Inventory (IVO). The results indicated the presence of possible bias in the responses of members of group 1, pointing to the need for procedural and statistical palliative care when running similar assessments in organizational settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objetivo. El propósito de esta investigación fue validar la escala de ansiedad en la interacción social (Social Interaction Anxiety Scale [SIAS-20] de Mattick y Clarke, 1998) en una población de estudiantes universitarios mexicanos. Concretamente, se buscó validar la estructura unidimensional del SIAS-20, calcular su consistencia interna, describir su distribución, comparar diferencias de medias entre géneros, comprobar su validez criterial con el factor de fobia social del inventario de ansiedad y fobia social (Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory [SPAI] de Turner, Beidel, Dancu y Stanley, 1989) y su validez convergente con la escala de autoverbalizaciones al hablar en público (Self-Statements during Public Speaking Scale [SSPS] de Hofmann y DiBartolo, 2000) así como estudiar su relación con un inventario de deseabilidad social (Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding [BIDR] de Paulhus, 1998). Método. Para ello, se empleó una muestra probabilística de estudiantes universitarios, estratificada por genéros. Resultados. Descartados los tres ítems inversos del SIAS-20, el modelo unidimensional tuvo buen ajuste. Además, la consistencia interna del SIAS-17 fue alta y su distribución asimétrica positiva. Los promedios fueron estadísticamente equivalentes entre ambos genéros. La escala mostró validez criterial con el SPAI y convergente con el SSPS. La correlación con deseabilidad social fue baja. Conclusión. Se encontró que la escala es válida para emplearla con población estudiantil universitaria mexicana. Futuros estudios deben concentrarse en su estandarización por percentiles, tanto en población mexicana, como en países hispanoparlantes.

Introduction: Marital aggrandizement is a tendency to idealize one's partner. It is considered to be a functional trait correlated to satisfaction with the relationship. There is a scale for its assessment created in Canada (18 items) and adapted in Mexico (14 items), but is not validated. Objectives: 1) To describe the distribution of the Marital Aggrandizement Scale in its original format of 18 dichotomized items (mas) and its version of 14 ordinal items (mas14), checking which is better suited to the concept of functional trait; and 2) to study the relationship of mas and mas14 with sociodemographic and religiosity (belief and practice) variables, verifying the substantiation of these correlates in controlling the effect of satisfaction with the relationship. Methodology: mas, Relationship Assessment Ratio (ras), and a sociodemographic data questionnaire were applied to 431 women and 376 men married or cohabiting in Monterrey, Mexico. Probability sampling of random routes was used. Results: mas show deviation from normality with positive asymmetry and flattened profile. mas14 showed slight deviation from normality with slight negative asymmetry and mesokurtic profile. mas and mas14 were independent or exhibited low associations with sociodemographich and religiosity variables. Only correlations with religiosity were significant and nontrivial after biasing the effect of satisfaction with the relationship (ras). Conclusions: The distribution of mas14 is more consistent with the concept of functional feature it intends to measure and does not require differential scales for sociodemographic variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to understand the perceptions of nurses working in Primary Health Care of Juiz de Fora-MG about the recognition and appreciation of their occupation and its implications in their everyday lifes. Methodology: descriptive qualitative research methodology was used, performed with nurses working in Primary Health Care of Juiz de Fora-MG, from October to December 2014, from a semi-structured interview,, examined by content analysis. Results: they were organized in four categories, entitled professional valuation x professional effort, professional valuation x motivational factor, professional (un)valuation x professional (dis)enchantment and professional value x professional enthusiasm, which reveal how the (un)importance of nursing reflected in nurses' daily lives. Conclusion: It concludes that in carrying out the nursing care offered appear the reflections of a frustrated or excellent job. t was concluded that the realization of the offered nursing care appear the reflexes of a frustrated or excellent job; however, it is up to professional allow to affect, or not, to motivate yourself, or not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish adaptations of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (M-C SDS) were normed on samples of university students or of adults assessed in personnel selection/promotion settings. Given the influence of age and assessment setting on the M-C SDS, these norms are inadequate for adult volunteers. This is the first study that provides normative and reliability data and a short form of Ávila Espada and Tomé Rodríguez's Spanish adaptation of the M-C SDS with Spanish adult volunteers (N = 575). Internal consistency estimates for the M-C SDS were adequate (alphas = .72-.80). The standardized differences in M-C SDS scores between the adult volunteer sample and university student or personnel selection/promotion samples reached values of medium size (d = 0.46 and 0.70). This result supports the development of specific norms for adult volunteers. In two independent subsamples of adult volunteers, a short form of 18-items showed internal consistency indices for its items that were higher than those for the 33 items of the complete scale. This short form did not involve a significant loss of reliability (alphas = .72 and .80) or nomological validity. Global norms and norms for age groups are provided for the short and complete forms of the M-C SDS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Envy is a negative and self-conscious emotion that emerges from social comparison. Children compare their possessions and skills with others to construct the Self. The aim of this study is to explore what type of objects — tangible and intangible — are more salient in invidious comparison in order to evaluate the intensity of envy and differences found according to age. Participants included children between the ages of three and nine years (N = 236), who were asked to score how an envious character in a story felt upon witnessing the misfortune of the envied person. In one case, the envied object was tangible (i.e., a scooter), in the other, it was intangible (i.e., being chosen due to possessing greater skill). The results indicated that envy is more intense for all of the age groups in the situations related to possessing greater skill rather than those related to possessing material objects. The younger children (3–6 years) showed more intense malicious envy than the older children. We then discuss the results regarding the role of intangible and tangible possessions in invidious comparison during childhood development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La escala de Autoverbalizaciones al Hablar en Público (SSPS; Hofmann & DiBartolo, 2000), es un instrumento para evaluar cogniciones en la situación de hablar en público, la cual comúnmente genera algún grado de ansiedad. La escala presentó buenas propiedades psicométricas en su estudio original con muestras estadounidenses al igual que en estudios de validación con muestras españolas. A pesar de su importancia, no estaba adaptada en población mexicana, así los objetivos de este estudio fueron: traducir la escala SSPS al español de uso en México, validar su estructura de dos factores correlacionados, calcular su consistencia interna, describir su distribución, contrastar diferencias entre sexos y observar la relación de la SSPS con deseabilidad social, que es un constructo potencialmente vinculado a la ansiedad social. La escala SSPS y el Inventario Balanceado de Deseabilidad Social al Responder (BIDR; Paulhus, 1998), fueron aplicados a una muestra probabilística estratificada por sexos de estudiantes universitarios. La estructura de dos factores correlacionados de autoverbalizaciones negativas y positivas mostró un ajuste adecuado a los datos e invarianza entre ambos sexos por mínimos cuadrados generalizados. La consistencia interna fue alta. La distribución fue asimétrica positiva. La correlación con deseabilidad social fue significativa sobre todo con el factor de autoengaño. Los varones obtuvieron medias más elevadas, pero hubo equivalencia estadística entre las medias de ambos sexos al controlar la deseabilidad social. Se sugiere el uso de la escala SSPS en México, controlando el sesgo de la deseabilidad social.

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Rape myths consist in stereotyped beliefs about rape, its victims and offenders. The scarcity of information about these myths in Brazil motivated this research, which aimed to validate the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, presenting evidences of validity in a sample of Law undergraduate students and verifying the existence of possible differences regarding participants' gender, as well as associations with social desirability, age and religiosity. 281 students participated with a mean age of 23.6 years, mostly female. They answered the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, the Social Desirability Scale and socio-demographic questions. Results indicate four factors as an adequate structure, which did not confirm the original structure of the measure, represented by seven factors. Significant results were observed in relation to religiosity and participants' gender. The proposed scale presents acceptable psychometric parameters for use in research on the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article spells out the methodological and technical problems that arise when building a database on politicians holding a position in representative institutions. Using the example of an existing database of Spanish MPs (1980-2011 ), the authors discuss the criteria they have used and the solutions applied to solve several challenges: parsimony, social desirability, multicollinearity, temporality control, adjustment to electoral results, level of information, and electoral cycles. Some descriptive statistics related to the data as well as research questions regarding political elites are also put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]