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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

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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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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
DOI: 10.1177/0013164493053002011
OpenAlex: W2006331609
Cited by: 580
References: 8
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FWCI: 0.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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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