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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
social desirability
Social desirability is when you want to show your desired image to others.
It happens all the time like when you are filling up questionaires or when you are just with your friends. We want others to view us in a positive manner, hence we will consciously or unconsciously overrate our positive selfs and try to conceal our negative side.

I feel that overtime, it seems to me that people might just believe that they are this way when in fact they are not. Occasionally, they might become who they are pretending to be by adopting these positive actions. Nonetheless, there are people who just can't change.

IT seems to me that the way we gather empirical evidence by interviewing is rather flawed. The most recent interview regarding the Stress experience when we are supposed to find 5 stressful situation from someone.

OF cos in singapore contexts, it is normal to be stress out with school work. Hence, most of the information gathered was regarding school work. I got a feeling that my interviewee has some problem regarding relationships. But perhaps due to social desirability, he does not want me to know what is going on hence did not mention anything or sort.

For me myself, i know i am easily stress out. Driving a lorry, being in charge of something, unsure if i am in the right track for my assignment to name a few. But since I am much more concern about how others view me. Social desirability does not allow me to admit all these can stress me out. In front of others, i should be of high self esteem. So much so all these have been push to the back of my mind making me believe that these things does not stress me all.
But in fact they still do, so when these things happen to me and since i forgot that i am supposed to be stress out over such things, i will be much more vulnerable to them and the stress is much more. And as soon as these stress are over, i will once again forgot abt them... so the cycle goes.

Then again, there are no actual finding to say if this is a bad thing or not....hmm..


Catching the falling leaves ...[9:36 PM]
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