Does Insufficient Effort Responding Account for the Relationship Between Psychopathy and Social Desirability?
Location
Session 2 (Room 1302)
Session Format
Oral Presentation
Your Campus
Statesboro Campus- Henderson Library, April 20th
Academic Unit
Department of Psychology
Research Area Topic:
Humanities & Social Sciences - Psychology, Sociology & Political Science
Co-Presenters and Faculty Mentors or Advisors
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Holtzman
Abstract
This research investigated the relationship between self-report psychopathy and social desirability and whether insufficient effort responding may impact this relationship. It was hypothesized that insufficient effort responding is biasing the relationship. Therefore, the significant negative relationship between psychopathy and social desirability may approach zero after isolating insufficient effort responding data. Two studies were conducted to aid this investigation. The first study utilized the Monte Carlo method to simulate this relationship. The simulation was run three times using three within-person standard deviations for the Desirability scale. Each simulation had 1,000 trials using 1,000 participants with proportions of valid respondents ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 with increments of 0.1. The results showed that insufficient effort responding may be biasing this relationship between psychopathy and social desirability, so an investigation among human participants was warranted. The second study examined this relationship among human participants using a community sample. The sample included 300 participants, and each participant was asked to take the Self-Report Psychopathy scale and the PRF Desirability subscale. Insufficient effort responding was isolated using response time, odd-even consistency, long-string analysis, and Mahalanobis distance. The results showed that after isolating insufficient effort responding data, the relationship between psychopathy and social desirability did approach zero but not for the reasons predicted. Additionally, the TOST procedure was done to test for statistical equivalence and found the opposite conclusion. Ultimately, the contradicting conclusions indicate that further investigation is needed into this relationship.
Program Description
This research investigated the relationship between self-report psychopathy and social desirability. Insufficient effort responding was hypothesized to be biasing this relationship. A simulation as well as an examination among human participants were conducted. Significance testing and equivalence testing were utilized, and the results were inconclusive.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Presentation Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Start Date
4-20-2022 1:00 PM
End Date
4-20-2022 2:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Folger, Logan F., "Does Insufficient Effort Responding Account for the Relationship Between Psychopathy and Social Desirability?" (2022). GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholars Symposium. 63.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/research_symposium/2022/2022/63
Does Insufficient Effort Responding Account for the Relationship Between Psychopathy and Social Desirability?
Session 2 (Room 1302)
This research investigated the relationship between self-report psychopathy and social desirability and whether insufficient effort responding may impact this relationship. It was hypothesized that insufficient effort responding is biasing the relationship. Therefore, the significant negative relationship between psychopathy and social desirability may approach zero after isolating insufficient effort responding data. Two studies were conducted to aid this investigation. The first study utilized the Monte Carlo method to simulate this relationship. The simulation was run three times using three within-person standard deviations for the Desirability scale. Each simulation had 1,000 trials using 1,000 participants with proportions of valid respondents ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 with increments of 0.1. The results showed that insufficient effort responding may be biasing this relationship between psychopathy and social desirability, so an investigation among human participants was warranted. The second study examined this relationship among human participants using a community sample. The sample included 300 participants, and each participant was asked to take the Self-Report Psychopathy scale and the PRF Desirability subscale. Insufficient effort responding was isolated using response time, odd-even consistency, long-string analysis, and Mahalanobis distance. The results showed that after isolating insufficient effort responding data, the relationship between psychopathy and social desirability did approach zero but not for the reasons predicted. Additionally, the TOST procedure was done to test for statistical equivalence and found the opposite conclusion. Ultimately, the contradicting conclusions indicate that further investigation is needed into this relationship.
