COPING, DEFENSE AND SOCIALLY DESIRABLE RESPONSES

摘要: Coping and defensive behaviors, assessed by intensive interviews, covary, respectively, with the presence of socially desirable undesirable inventory responses. Minimizing influence social desirability variable consequently interferes strategic capacity items to index coping defense. Furthermore, using low social-desirability scale value most effectively discriminates between genuine defensively distorted Neutral are less efficient in this connection even though they minimize responding.