Martin Bäckström
Biographic Data
| ID | 6097960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Bäckström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bäckström |
| SIGNATURE | BÄCKSTRÖM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8544-7404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Social Desirability Influences the Relationship between Measures of Personality and Key Constructs in Positive Psychology
Does socially desirable responding produce exaggerated correlations between self-ratings of personality and positive psychology constructs? We operationalized social desirability as the tendency to react to evaluative content in questionnaire items and related one standard measure and one evaluatively neutralized measure of the Big Five to measures of five key positive psychology constructs (optimism, purpose in life, satisfaction with life, well…
Why Forced-Choice and Likert Items Provide the Same Information on Personality, Including Social Desirability
The forced-choice response format is often considered superior to the standard Likert-type format for controlling social desirability in personality inventories. We performed simulations and found that the trait information based on the two formats converges when the number of items is high and forced-choice items are mixed with regard to positively and negatively keyed items. Given that forced-choice items extract the same personality informatio…
Workplace incivility as a risk factor for workplace bullying and psychological well-being
The findings of the present study suggests that workplace incivility can be a risk factor for future bullying. In addition, the findings suggest that experienced workplace incivility exerts a unique negative effect on psychological well-being, even when accounting for exposure to workplace bullying
Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being
Social desirability may cause spurious relations in self-rating measures. The present study sought to disentangle socially desirable responding and content in the relation between measures of personality traits and well-being. Social desirability was operationalized as the evaluative factor (the tendency to react to evaluative content in questionnaire items). We collected self- and peer-ratings of personality and self-ratings of well-being from 2…
If they can’t change, why support change? Implicit theories about groups, social dominance orientation and political identity
In three studies across three cultures (U.S., Sweden, and Israel), we examine whether implicit theories about groups are associated with political identity and whether this relationship is mediated by Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Study 1 found that raising the salience of entity beliefs leads to increased right-wing political self-identification on social issues, although no such effect was found regarding general or economic political ide…
Will I Fit in and Do Well? The Importance of Social Belongingness and Self-Efficacy for Explaining Gender Differences in Interest in STEM and Heed Majors
Throughout the world, the labor market is clearly gender segregated. More research is needed to explain women's lower interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) majors and particularly to explain men's lower interest in HEED (Health care, Elementary Education, and the Domestic spheres) majors. We tested self-efficacy (competence beliefs) and social belongingness expectations (fitting in socially) as mediators of gender di…
Perceived Utility (not Sympathy) Mediates the Proportion Dominance Effect in Helping Decisions
The proportion dominance effect (PDE) refers to a higher motivation to help when the victims are part of a small (you can help 56 out of 60) rather than a large (you can help 56 out of 560) reference group. In two studies using different experimental paradigms, we investigated possible mediators of the PDE. Study 1 ( N = 168) was conducted in three separate steps in order to test each link of the mediator model independently. Students read six vi…
Mixed Discriminatory Judgments of Individuals’ Warmth and Competence-Related Abilities
Although several studies have demonstrated that stereotypes can be mixed in terms of warmth and competence (e.g., cold but competent), the possibility of mixed discrimination has received very little attention so far. To this end, the present study investigated mixed discriminatory judgments of individuals. In two studies, the participants judged the empathic (warmth) and the cognitive (competence) ability of individuals who differed only in whet…
Daily activities mediate the relationship between personality and quality of life in middle-aged women
Five-factor inventories have a major general factor related to social desirability which can be reduced by framing items neutrally
Structural Modeling of Generalized Prejudice
Structural equation modeling on questionnaire data showed that prejudice toward different target groups can be represented in terms of a general prejudice factor. Distinction of classical and modern prejudice only increased model fit marginally. In two separate samples (paper and pencil vs. Internet) several structural models of the relationship between key individual difference variables and prejudice were tested, revealing highly similar result…
A model of subjective quality of life for outpatients with schizophrenia and other psychoses
Will I Fit in and Do Well? The Importance of Social Belongingness and Self-Efficacy for Explaining Gender Differences in Interest in STEM and Heed Majors
Throughout the world, the labor market is clearly gender segregated. More research is needed to explain women's lower interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) majors and particularly to explain men's lower interest in HEED (Health care, Elementary Education, and the Domestic spheres) majors. We tested self-efficacy (competence beliefs) and social belongingness expectations (fitting in socially) as mediators of gender di…
Five-factor inventories have a major general factor related to social desirability which can be reduced by framing items neutrally
Perceived Utility (not Sympathy) Mediates the Proportion Dominance Effect in Helping Decisions
The proportion dominance effect (PDE) refers to a higher motivation to help when the victims are part of a small (you can help 56 out of 60) rather than a large (you can help 56 out of 560) reference group. In two studies using different experimental paradigms, we investigated possible mediators of the PDE. Study 1 ( N = 168) was conducted in three separate steps in order to test each link of the mediator model independently. Students read six vi…
If they can’t change, why support change? Implicit theories about groups, social dominance orientation and political identity
In three studies across three cultures (U.S., Sweden, and Israel), we examine whether implicit theories about groups are associated with political identity and whether this relationship is mediated by Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Study 1 found that raising the salience of entity beliefs leads to increased right-wing political self-identification on social issues, although no such effect was found regarding general or economic political ide…
A model of subjective quality of life for outpatients with schizophrenia and other psychoses
Structural Modeling of Generalized Prejudice
Structural equation modeling on questionnaire data showed that prejudice toward different target groups can be represented in terms of a general prejudice factor. Distinction of classical and modern prejudice only increased model fit marginally. In two separate samples (paper and pencil vs. Internet) several structural models of the relationship between key individual difference variables and prejudice were tested, revealing highly similar result…
Five-factor inventories have a major general factor related to social desirability which can be reduced by framing items neutrally
Daily activities mediate the relationship between personality and quality of life in middle-aged women
Mixed Discriminatory Judgments of Individuals’ Warmth and Competence-Related Abilities
Although several studies have demonstrated that stereotypes can be mixed in terms of warmth and competence (e.g., cold but competent), the possibility of mixed discrimination has received very little attention so far. To this end, the present study investigated mixed discriminatory judgments of individuals. In two studies, the participants judged the empathic (warmth) and the cognitive (competence) ability of individuals who differed only in whet…
Perceived Utility (not Sympathy) Mediates the Proportion Dominance Effect in Helping Decisions
The proportion dominance effect (PDE) refers to a higher motivation to help when the victims are part of a small (you can help 56 out of 60) rather than a large (you can help 56 out of 560) reference group. In two studies using different experimental paradigms, we investigated possible mediators of the PDE. Study 1 ( N = 168) was conducted in three separate steps in order to test each link of the mediator model independently. Students read six vi…
Will I Fit in and Do Well? The Importance of Social Belongingness and Self-Efficacy for Explaining Gender Differences in Interest in STEM and Heed Majors
Throughout the world, the labor market is clearly gender segregated. More research is needed to explain women's lower interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) majors and particularly to explain men's lower interest in HEED (Health care, Elementary Education, and the Domestic spheres) majors. We tested self-efficacy (competence beliefs) and social belongingness expectations (fitting in socially) as mediators of gender di…
If they can’t change, why support change? Implicit theories about groups, social dominance orientation and political identity
In three studies across three cultures (U.S., Sweden, and Israel), we examine whether implicit theories about groups are associated with political identity and whether this relationship is mediated by Social Dominance Orientation (SDO). Study 1 found that raising the salience of entity beliefs leads to increased right-wing political self-identification on social issues, although no such effect was found regarding general or economic political ide…
Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being
Social desirability may cause spurious relations in self-rating measures. The present study sought to disentangle socially desirable responding and content in the relation between measures of personality traits and well-being. Social desirability was operationalized as the evaluative factor (the tendency to react to evaluative content in questionnaire items). We collected self- and peer-ratings of personality and self-ratings of well-being from 2…
Workplace incivility as a risk factor for workplace bullying and psychological well-being
The findings of the present study suggests that workplace incivility can be a risk factor for future bullying. In addition, the findings suggest that experienced workplace incivility exerts a unique negative effect on psychological well-being, even when accounting for exposure to workplace bullying
Why Forced-Choice and Likert Items Provide the Same Information on Personality, Including Social Desirability
The forced-choice response format is often considered superior to the standard Likert-type format for controlling social desirability in personality inventories. We performed simulations and found that the trait information based on the two formats converges when the number of items is high and forced-choice items are mixed with regard to positively and negatively keyed items. Given that forced-choice items extract the same personality informatio…
How Social Desirability Influences the Relationship between Measures of Personality and Key Constructs in Positive Psychology
Does socially desirable responding produce exaggerated correlations between self-ratings of personality and positive psychology constructs? We operationalized social desirability as the tendency to react to evaluative content in questionnaire items and related one standard measure and one evaluatively neutralized measure of the Big Five to measures of five key positive psychology constructs (optimism, purpose in life, satisfaction with life, well…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Personality (4 works) · Social desirability (4 works) · Big Five personality traits (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works)