Hi everyone: I was under the impression that the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale was a good scale to use in research studies to assess response bias, but I came across this article earlier today suggesting a lack of empirical support for this measure. Has anyone here had any experience with this scale? Are there any other scales out there for assessing socially desirable response sets? Thanks in advance. Rod Source: Journal of Personality Assessment, Oct2002, Vol. 79 Issue 2, p286, 20p, 3 charts Author(s): Barger, Steven D. Abstract: The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scale (Crowne & Marlowe, 1960) is widely used to assess and control for response bias in self-report research. Several abbreviated versions of the Marlowe-Crowne scale have been proposed and adopted in psychology and medicine. In this article I evaluate the adequacy of 9 short forms using confirmatory factor analysis across 2 samples (combined N = 867). There was some evidence for the adequacy of different short forms, but model adequacy was not consistent across samples. Supplementary analyses revealed a multidimensional structure to the full Marlowe-Crowne scale and indicated that the apparent adequacy of model fit for some short forms might be a statistical artifact. Using the Marlowe-Crowne scale or its various short forms as a control for response bias is discouraged on empirical and conceptual grounds.[
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