Abstract Social desirability responding (SDR) is the tendency of respondents to answer survey questions in a manner that will be viewed favourably by others. Scholars in environmental psychology have argued SDR influences individuals’ answers to surveys asking their pro-environmental intentions, attitude and behaviour. Yet empirical evidence indicates the correlations between SDR and environmentalism questions are weak, which was confirmed by a unpublished meta-analysis reporting pooled correlations ranging from .06 to .11. We used data from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 6518) to examine possible subtle relations between two SDR items measuring self-deceptive enhancement and impression management with several environmental questions in a national sample. Cross-sectional and delayed correlations were weak, but autoregressive cross-lagged models showed a marginal interaction between the impression management item and self-reported behaviour in predicting change in pro-environmental intention one-year after. We discuss practical implications of the findings.

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社会期望在意向与行为的纵向关系中的作用

摘要 社会期望响应 (SDR) 是受访者以他人会喜欢的方式回答调查问题的倾向。环境心理学学者认为，特别提款权会影响个人对询问其环保意图、态度和行为的调查的回答。然而，经验证据表明，特别提款权与环保问题之间的相关性很弱，这一点得到了一项未发表的荟萃分析的证实，该荟萃分析报告了从 0.06 到 0.11 的汇总相关性。我们使用来自新西兰态度和价值观研究 (N = 6518) 的数据来检查两个 SDR 项目之间可能存在的微妙关系，这些项目衡量自欺欺人的增强和印象管理与国家样本中的几个环境问题。横截面和延迟相关性较弱，但自回归交叉滞后模型显示印象管理项目和自我报告行为之间在预测一年后亲环境意图变化方面存在边际相互作用。我们讨论了研究结果的实际意义。