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      La deseabilidad social revalorada: más que una distorsión, una necesidad de aprobación social Translated title: Social Desirability Reconsidered: More than Distortion, the Need for Social Approval

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          La deseabilidad social se ha conceptuado a través de los años principalmente como una tendencia a contestar un cuestionario de personalidad dando una imagen demasiado favorable de uno mismo. El estudio tuvo como objetivo evidenciar que la Deseabilidad Social es una medida sustantiva de personalidad que refleja una necesidad de aprobación social (NAS), más que un sesgo en las respuestas individuales. Para la realización del estudio colaboraron 1,235 participantes provenientes del D.F. Michoacán y Coahuila, de los cuales el 56% eran mujeres, con una media de edad de 28 años, de la población general. Se aplicaron 12 escalas psicológicas que con base en la literatura sugerían convergencia y divergencia tanto teórica como empírica respecto a las dos dimensiones identificadas como NAS-Positiva y NAS-Negativa, incluidas la exageración, honestidad, auto-estima y auto-monitoreo. Se identificó la red nomológica entre las variables de interés y las variables criterio. Tanto la NAS-Positiva y NAS-Negativa resultaron estar diferenciadas principalmente de la exageración y del automonitoreo. Finalmente se identificaron algunas variables asociadas a la NAS haciendo coincidente algunos hallazgos previos tales como que la agradabilidad, la regulación emocional, la orientación religiosa y el autocontrol son buenos predictores de ambos tipos de NAS.

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          Social desirability has been conceptualized through many years as a tendency to present oneself in a very fashionable picture. The aim of the present study is to demonstrate that social desirability is a substantive measure of a personality trait that reflects a need for social approval (NSA), rather than an individual response bias. A total sample of 1,235 participants of general population from the Federal District, Michoacan and Coahuila States was recruited, 56% were women, with a mean age of 28 years. Twelve scales were chosen from the extensive scientific literature of social desirability to prove convergence and divergence association to the current topic of need for social approval. Over-claiming, honesty, self-esteem, an self- monitoring scales were associated with the two dimension of Positive and Negative- NSA. The nomological network was identified between the variables of interest and the criterion variables. Both, positive and negative dimension of NSA clearly differentiate from Over-claiming and self-monitoring. Finally, agreeableness, emotional regulation, religious orientation and self-control are good predictors of both types of NSA.

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              Interpersonal and intrapsychic adaptiveness of trait self-enhancement: a mixed blessing?

              Reactions to trait self-enhancers were investigated in 2 longitudinal studies of person perception in discussion groups. Groups of 4-6 participants met 7 times for 20 min. After Meetings 1 and 7, group members rated their perceptions of one another. In Study 1, trait self-enhancement was indexed by measures of narcissism and self-deceptive enhancement. At the first meeting, self-enhancers made positive impressions. They were seen as agreeable, well adjusted, and competent. After 7 weeks, however, they were rated negatively and gave self-evaluations discrepant with peer evaluations they received. In Study 2, an independent sample of observers (close acquaintances) enabled a pretest index of discrepancy self-enhancement: It predicted the same deteriorating pattern of interpersonal perceptions as the other three trait measures. Nonetheless, all self-enhancement measures correlated positively with self-esteem.
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                Journal
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                Acta de investigación psicológica
                Acta de investigación psicol
                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Psicología (Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico )
                2007-4832
                2007-4719
                December 2012
                : 2
                : 3
                : 808-824
                Affiliations
                [03] orgnameUniversidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
                [02] Torreón orgnameUniversidad Iberoamericana
                [01] México orgnameUniversidad Iberoamericana
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                S2007-48322012000300005 S2007-4832(12)00200300005
                ff6cfe7f-86dd-40d1-aa97-54ab765076e2

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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                : 24 September 2012
                : 12 May 2012
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                Auto-monitoreo,Self-Monitoring,Honesty,Over-claiming,Need for Social Approval,Social desirability,Honestidad,Exageración,Necesidad de Aprobación Social,Deseabilidad Social

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