Hi On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Hetzel, Rod wrote: > 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.
Check out the work of Paulhus at U of British Columbia. Socially Desirable Responding Paulhus, D.L. (1984). Two-component models of socially desirable responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 598-609. Paulhus, D.L. (1991). Measurement and control of response bias. In J.P. Robinson, P.R. Shaver, & L.S. Wrightsman (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes (pp.17-59). New York: Academic Press. Paulhus, D.L. (1998). The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding: BIDR Version 7. Toronto/Buffalo: Multi-Health Systems. Paulhus, D.L. (2002). Socially desirable responding: The evolution of a construct. In H. Braun, D.N. Jackson, & D.E. Wiley (Eds.), The role of constructs in psychological and educational measurement (pp. 67-88). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
