Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
3-2008
Abstract
This article examines measurement equivalence of the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) across two nations (the United States and Singapore), two cultural values (horizontal individualism and horizontal collectivism) and two motivational conditions (standard and faking). One sample of undergraduate students from each country (N Singapore = 158, N United States = 166) participated in this study, and a within-subject experimental design is used. Specifically, at Time 1, participants were simply asked to respond to the BIDR and the INDCOL (standard condition). At Time 2, the participants were instructed to engage in social desirability (faking condition). Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses are used to evaluate the equivalence of the BIDR. The authors found support for the equivalence of the BIDR across the two cultural values. However, there is weaker support for the equivalence of the BIDR across the two countries and the two motivational conditions. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Keywords
BIDR, Cross-cultural research, Measurement equivalence, Social desirability
Discipline
Business | Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume
40
Issue
2
First Page
214
Last Page
233
ISSN
0022-0221
Identifier
10.1177/0022022108328819
Publisher
SAGE
Citation
LI, Andrew and REB, Jochen.
A Cross-Nations, Cross-Cultures, and Cross-Conditions Analysis on the Equivalence of the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR). (2008). Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 40, (2), 214-233.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1011
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022108328819