Abstract

HAUCK, Nelson  and  VALENTINI, Felipe. Modeling Social Desirability in the Antisocial Self-Report (ASR-13) scores. Aval. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.21, n.4, pp. 418-426. ISSN 1677-0471.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15689/ap.2022.2104.24298.05.

The Antisocial Self-Report (ASR-13) was developed to assess a general antisocial personality factor. However, because antisocial traits are socially aversive, the ASR-13 scores can be potentially contaminated by social desirability in high-stakes testing situations. In the present study, we performed an in-depth analysis of the ASR-13 to determine which items may be subject to socially desirable responding when used for data collection in prison settings. Participants were 324 college students, and 20 male prisoners. A Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model suggested three items were especially prone to eliciting socially desirable responding. We found evidence that prisoners likely attenuated their scores when rating items with content that is related to illegal behaviors. We discuss the implications of the findings, and how they help understand the latent processes that cause item responses to the ASR-13 inventory.

Keywords : psychopathy; social desirability; response styles; faking; explanatory item response theory.

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