Self-report imagery questionnaire scores and subtypes of social-desirable responding

摘要: Allbutt, Ling, and Shafiullah (2006) Shafiullah, Ling found that scores on self-report measures of visual imagery experience correlate primarily with the egoistic form social-desirable responding. Here, three studies are reported which investigated whether this pattern findings generalized to ratings vividness in auditory modality, a new version Vividness Visual Imagery Questionnaire (Marks, 1995), reports thinking style. The measure social- desirable responding used was Balanced Inventory Desirable Responding (BIDR; Paulhus, 2002). Correlational analysis repli- cated seen our earlier work correlations bias, correlation largest significant, style next approached significance, smallest not significant. size these mirrored extent aspects were valued by participants.