Self-Report Imagery Questionnaire Scores and Subtypes of Social-Desirable Responding

Shafiullah, Mohammed, Heffernan, Tom, Ling, Jonathan and Allbutt, John (2008) Self-Report Imagery Questionnaire Scores and Subtypes of Social-Desirable Responding. Journal of Individual Differences, 29 (4). pp. 181-188. ISSN 1614-0001

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Abstract

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

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	imagery, questionnaires, social-desirable responding
Subjects:	B900 Others in Subjects allied to Medicine C800 Psychology
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2011 09:25
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 16:28
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/4282

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