Smith S T, Smith K D, Seymour K J
Administrative Sciences Department, Marmara University, Istanbul.
J Soc Psychol. 1993 Feb;133(1):43-52. doi: 10.1080/00224545.1993.9712117.
Earlier studies using specialized instruments confirmed a positive relation between a personality item's desirability and its endorsement outside North America, but allowed for few conclusions about the strength of the relationship in non-Western societies and offered no explanations for the observed correlations. In Study 1 of this investigation, university students from Turkey (a country rich in non-Western cultural elements) were found to be as likely as their U.S. counterparts to describe themselves in socially desirable terms. Furthermore, the strength of the relationship between desirability and endorsement did not depend on their level of exposure to the English language or to Western concepts. Study 2 indicated that socially desirable traits were also the most common among students in Turkey (paralleling results with U.S. samples), in support of desirable traits' prevalence as an explanation for the desirability-endorsement correlation.
早期使用专门仪器进行的研究证实，在北美以外地区，一个人格项目的可取性与其被认可程度之间存在正相关关系，但对于非西方社会中这种关系的强度几乎没有得出什么结论，也没有对观察到的相关性做出解释。在本次调查的研究1中，发现来自土耳其（一个富含非西方文化元素的国家）的大学生与美国大学生一样，倾向于用社会期望的方式描述自己。此外，可取性与被认可程度之间关系的强度并不取决于他们接触英语或西方概念的程度。研究2表明，社会期望的特质在土耳其学生中也是最常见的（与美国样本的结果相似），这支持了用期望特质的普遍性来解释可取性与被认可程度之间的相关性。
