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Measuring Social Desirability: Short Forms of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale

Fischer, Donald G., Fick, Carol·1993·Educational and Psychological Measurement

Abstract

A practical difficulty with the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (SDS) is its length. Preferring a shorter measure of social desirability, researchers have devised a number of short forms of the SDS. The present study used confirmatory factor analysis to establish the adequacy of these subscales in measuring social desirability. Results showed that (a) of the six short forms of SDS considered two models (XI and X2) provide the best measures of social desirability, (b) improved measures of all of the models can be constructed, and (c) improved measures of the dimensions, denial and attribution, thought to measure the latent construct of social approval can also be constructed.

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  • The MC-10 has shown high internal consistency (α = .88), high correlation with the original full scale (r = .96), and has been proposed as a significant improvement over the original scale and other short forms in psychology undergraduates.

    “The MC-10 has shown high internal consistency ( α = .88), high correlation with the original full scale ( r = .96), and has been proposed as a significant improvement over the original scale and other short forms when tested in a sample of psychology university undergraduates (Fischer and Fick 1993).”

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Authors
Fischer, D. G., & Fick, C.
Affiliations
University of Saskatchewan (CA)
Venue
Educational and Psychological Measurement
Published
1993-06
Volume
53
Issue
2
Pages
417-424
ISSN
  • 0013-1644 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-3888
OpenAlex
W2006331609
Cited by
580
References
8
Citations by year
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0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Educational and Psychological Measurement (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Keywords
social desirability, Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, short form, scale length, factor structure, denial, attribution, social approval, psychometric validation

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