Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding.

BIDR / PDS

What it measures

Socially desirable responding split into 2 components: Self-Deceptive Enhancement (SDE, honest but overly favourable self-view) and Impression Management (IM, deliberate other-directed faking)

Length and format

40 (20 SDE + 20 IM) in BIDR Version 6. 7-point agreement (Likert); dichotomous extreme-score keying common (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into many languages (e.g. ES, FR, DE, IT, ZH, KO, and others); widely used cross-culturally

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

mixed

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Reference

Paulhus, D. L. (1991). Measurement and control of response bias. In Robinson et al. (Eds.), Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes. Academic Press.