A further look at social desirability

A closer look at readiness to change in the relationship between social desirability and drinking among young adults

Reducing drinking prevalence among undergraduates is a primary public health goal [1-4]. Most undergraduate students are not of legal drinking age (21 in the U.S.), however, problematic drinking is often reported between ages 18-21 [5]. The literature suggests that college students report heavy drinking at higher prevalence rates relative to non-college peers [6]. Additionally, almost 80% of un...

A Children's Social Desirability Questionnaire.

A Children's Social Desirability (CSD) questionnaire was constructed and administered to 956 Ss in Grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12. A direct question ("yes-no") form of the scale was presented to children in the 3rd, 4th, and Sth grades in individual testing sessions, and a true-false form was given older Ss in group sessions. For both forms of the questionnaire, split-half reliabilities and t...

A Further Look at Capacitors in Complex Arrangements

Recently, a previous contributor showed how the delta-wye conversion may be applied to find the equivalent capacitance of five capacitors arranged in a bridge configuration. In fact, that contributor gave an algorithm for this purpose which showed that the equivalent capacitance depends upon all five capacitors. However, in this paper, we point out that there is a special case where the equival...

A further look at the "language-as-fixed-effect fallacy".

The proper analysis of experiments using language materials has been a source of controversy and debate among researchers. We summarize the main issues and discuss the solutions that have been presented. Even though the major issues have been dealt with extensively in the literature, there still exists quite a bit of confusion about how to analyze the data from such experiments. We discuss a nu...

Invited commentary: a further look at dietary questionnaire validation.