Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding.
BIDR / PDS
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)
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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
- 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.
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