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A Social Desirability Item Response Theory Model: Retrieve–Deceive–Transfer

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  • Cheng-Han Leng

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Hung-Yu Huang

    (University of Taipei)

  • Grace Yao

    (National Taiwan University)

Abstract

In this study, a new item response theory model is developed to account for situations in which respondents overreport or underreport their actual opinions on a positive or negative issue. Such behavior is supposed to be a result of deception and transfer mechanisms. In the proposed model, this behavior is simulated by incorporating a deception term into a multidimensional rating scale model, followed by multiplication by a transfer term, with the two operations performed by an indicator function and a transition matrix separately. The proposed model is presented in a Bayesian framework approximated by Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. Through a series of simulations, the parameters of the proposed model are recovered accurately. The methodology is also implemented within an online experimental study to demonstrate the methodology’s application.

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  • Cheng-Han Leng & Hung-Yu Huang & Grace Yao, 2020. "A Social Desirability Item Response Theory Model: Retrieve–Deceive–Transfer," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 85(1), pages 56-74, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:psycho:v:85:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1007_s11336-019-09689-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s11336-019-09689-y
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