Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale.

MC-SDS

What it measures

Social desirability response bias - the tendency to give culturally approved, approval-seeking answers (need for approval); used as a validity/response-style control

Length and format

33 (original); many short forms (e.g. Strahan & Gerbasi 10- and 20-item; Reynolds Forms A/B/C of 11-13 items; X1). true/false (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into many languages worldwide (e.g. ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, ZH, JA, AR, plus others); one of the most-translated response-style measures

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

public-domain / open

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Reference

Crowne, D. P., & Marlowe, D. (1960). A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 24(4), 349-354.