Impression management, candor, and microcomputer-based organizational surveys: An individual differences approach

摘要

The present paper suggests an individual differences approach to the issue of whether responses on computerized surveys are more candid than those on paper-and-pencil scales. It was hypothesized that skilled and motivated impression managers — individuals high in self-monitoring (Snyder, 1974), would inflate their scores on an index of job satisfaction under paper-and-pencil assessment but would exhibit lower levels of job satisfaction under computer