Kristiansen C M, Harding C M
Public Health Rep. 1984 Jul-Aug;99(4):384-8.
The relationship between measures of social desirability and various preventive health behaviors was examined directly for 235 females and 171 males from the British public and 182 females and 49 males from the University of Toronto, Canada. Both simple and partial correlations controlling for age showed that social desirability scores were related to total preventive behavior scores formed on the basis of the responses to 42 items, as well as many of the individual preventive behavior items. To ensure that this relationship was not unique to the present study, the response frequencies for 15 behavior items in this study were compared with those reported by another investigator who also used these 15 behavior items, and were found to be quite similar. Simple and partial correlations controlling for age showed that social desirability scores were significantly correlated with more of these 15 behaviors than one would expect by chance. The implications of the association of social desirability and preventive health behavior for the measurement of preventive health behavior, future research, and health education are discussed.
对来自英国公众的235名女性和171名男性以及来自加拿大多伦多大学的182名女性和49名男性，直接考察了社会期望度测量与各种预防性健康行为之间的关系。控制年龄的简单相关和偏相关均显示，社会期望度得分与基于对42个项目的回答所形成的总体预防行为得分以及许多个体预防行为项目相关。为确保这种关系并非本研究所独有，将本研究中15个行为项目的回答频率与另一位也使用这15个行为项目的研究者报告的频率进行了比较，发现二者非常相似。控制年龄的简单相关和偏相关显示，社会期望度得分与这15种行为中的更多行为显著相关，其程度超过偶然预期。讨论了社会期望度与预防性健康行为之间的关联对预防性健康行为测量、未来研究和健康教育的意义。
