Protocol: Literature review on the psychometric properties of the short versions of the scales of social desirability in the answers to competency self-assessment questionnaires

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https://doi.org/10.4995/wpom.v9i1.9172

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Literature review, protocol, social desirability, short version, scales, soft skills

Abstract

Research in business organization in general and talent management (in university or professional students) uses in many cases self-administered questionnaires as a source of data to assess people's competencies. In clinical psychology, it has been shown that self-evaluations of behaviors may present a bias of social desirability. However, even in this field of research it is not usual to measure its effect when taking data. Our work proposes a protocol to find a set of scales of social desirability (SD) with less than 20 items that are valid and reliable. We also intend to identify if SD scales are associated with the self-assessments of some transversal competences.

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Juan A. Marin-Garcia, Universitat Politècnica de València

ROGLE - Departamento de Organización de Empresas

ResearcherID A-4069-2011

Scopus Author ID 14024595300

Martha Giraldo-O'Meara, Universitat de València

Departamento de Personalidad, evaluación y tratamientos psicológicos. Grupo de Investigación y Tratamiento de las Obsesiones y Compulsiones de la Universitat de València (I’TOC). Facultad de Psicología.

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Marin-Garcia, J. A., Betancour, E., & Giraldo-O’Meara, M. (2018). Protocol: Literature review on the psychometric properties of the short versions of the scales of social desirability in the answers to competency self-assessment questionnaires. WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management, 9(1), 14–29. https://doi.org/10.4995/wpom.v9i1.9172

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