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

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