Impact of social desirability bias on the CoPsoQ-ISTAS 21

What is it about?

Self-reported test is one of the main psychosocial risk assessment tools. However, this test it is susceptible to certain sources of error, including social desirability. Since psychosocial risks are emerging, there are not many studies on their assessment. This paper analyzes the impact of social desirability on the short version of the CopSoq-ISTAS 21 assessment tool.

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Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Our findings show that in a psychosocial risk assessment is not enough to apply a self-report test and interpret its results, being necessary to minimize the sources of error.

Perspectives

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We hope that this article contributes to improving the quality of risk assessments conducted with self-report questionnaires.

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