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Measuring Social Desirability: Short Forms of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale
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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 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
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- 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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- FWCI
- 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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