Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

How Do You Compare? The Correlations of Social Desirability and Self-Esteem as well as Social Desirability and Self-Consciousness

Kristy Johnson, Lindenwood University
Kristy Myers, Lindenwood University

Abstract

In the present study, 81 participants were asked to self-report their levels of self-esteem and self-consciousness using Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale and Fenigstein’s Self-Consciousness Scale, respectively, as well as report their current semester GPA in order to study the correlations between these variables and the variable of GPA inflation. There was no significance found for the correlations between the level of GPA inflation and experimental condition, between GPA inflation and self-esteem, or between GPA inflation and self-consciousness for the 35 participants with obtainable GPA’s. However, the present researchers did find significance in the correlation between inflated GPA and self-consciousness for the 80 total participants with a reported GPA.

Recommended Citation

Johnson, Kristy and Myers, Kristy (2009) "How Do You Compare? The Correlations of Social Desirability and Self-Esteem as well as Social Desirability and Self-Consciousness," Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 9, Article 8.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/psych_journals/vol1/iss9/8