RT Article
T1 Exploring Social Desirability Bias
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 44
IS 4
SP 291
OP 302
A1 Chung, Janne
A1 Monroe, Gary S.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2003
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785619535
AB This study examines social desirability bias in the context of ethical decision-making by accountants. It hypothesizes a negative relation between social desirability bias and ethical evaluation. It also predicts an interaction effect between religiousness and gender on social desirability bias. An experiment using five general business vignettes was carried out on 121 accountants (63 males and 58 females). The results show that social desirability bias is higher (lower) when the situation encountered is more (less) unethical. The bias has religiousness and gender main effects as well as an interaction effect between these two independent variables. Women who were more religious recorded the highest bias scores relative to less religious women and men regardless of their religiousness.
K1 Social desirability bias
K1 Religiousness
K1 Idealism
K1 Gender
K1 ethical intention
K1 Ethical Evaluation
DO 10.1023/A:1023648703356