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Moral competence and social desirability of security and armed forces
KUČEROVÁ, Kristýna
The bachelor thesis is focused on moral competencies and social desirability of the security and armed forces of the Czech Republick. Specifically, for firefighters and soldiers. The theoretical part of the work is divided into two main parts. The first of them is focused on moral competencies. First, I deal with the theoretical basis of moral reasoning and then the basic concepts related to morality. Furthermore, I deal with psychological theories of morality and their starting points. The second part of the theoretical part deals with the concept of social desirability. This part is focused on terminology, the construct of social desirabillity, the two-factor model and measurement methods. In the empirical part I focus on the preferred stage of moral reasonin accorditn to Kohlberg´s for security and armed forces, the relationship between social desirability and the level of moral judgment. The research group consists of a total of 213 respondents. In verifying the established hypotheses, no statistically significant difference was found between the level of moral competencies of members of the security forces and the civilian population, and no significant difference was found in the level of moral competencies depending on education. The difference between the level of social desirability of the security forces in comparison with the civilian population was found, the hypothesis determining the connection between the preferred level of moral competencies was supported and the hypothesis dealing with the inconsistency between the C-score and social desirability was supported.
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Integrity measure - test of answers' consistency
Salzerová, Aneta ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Lukavská, Kateřina (referee)
The thesis addresses response consistency in questionaries, the concept of integrity and use of integrity tests. Next chapter deals with consistency and describes possible sources of response variability and scales which is used for consistency measurement. The third chapter addresses response distortion and methods of its measurement. Last part describes cognitive functions which could affect answering a questionary and introduces a relation between psychopathological symptoms and questionary responses. The empirical part of the thesis studies response consistency in each category and relation between integrity test in work environment, consistency and demographic data of respondents. Difference between a number of identical answers about social desirability and about neutral information showed statistical significance. Therefore, hypotheses about the highest consistency in neutral information was supported. The thesis also revealed that a higher score in interference relates to a higher score of consistency. Finally, two correlations were found out. First was a positive correlation between integrity and number of years respondents have worked, second was a negative correlation between interference and age. Keywords: integrity, social desirability, consistency, validity, counterproductive behaviour
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Influence of social desirability on integrity meausre
Křížová, Lucie ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Juríčková, Veronika (referee)
In this theses I am concerned with social desirability and its influence on integrity measure. The theoretical part defines key terms such as social desirability and socially desirable responding. It deals with methods that can be used for social desirability measuring. The end of this part goes through faking behaviour associated with responding to psychology questionnaires. The aim of my effort is to find out to what extent social desirability affects responding to the 'Integrity questionnaire in the work environment' which was developed by National Institute of Mental Health (NÚDZ). For this purpose, an experiment was performed in which the questionnaires were presented to the respondents (N = 100) in three different scenarios that varied in the simulation rate. Groups and subsequent assignment of a specific scenario were created randomly. Results of groups with different scenarios were compared. Based on this, it was verified that social desirability had an impact on integrity measurement if used 'Integrity questionnaire in the work environment'. KEYWORDS social desirability, response distortion, faking, testing, integrity
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