Internal and External Validity of Scores on the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding and the Paulhus Deception Scales
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| Title: | Internal and External Validity of Scores on the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding and the Paulhus Deception Scales |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Lanyon, Richard I., Carle, Adam C. |
| Source: | Educational and Psychological Measurement. 2007 67(5):859-876. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education |
| Descriptors: | Persuasive Discourse, Deception, Validity, Social Desirability, Undergraduate Students, College Students |
| Assessment and Survey Identifiers: | Psychological Screening Inventory, California Psychological Inventory |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0013164406299104 |
| ISSN: | 0013-1644 |
| Abstract: | The internal and external validity of scores on the two-scale Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) and its recent revision, the Paulhus Deception Scales (PDS), developed to measure two facets of social desirability, were studied with three groups of forensic clients and two groups of college undergraduates (total N = 519). The two scales were statistically significantly related in all groups and for both versions of the inventory. A two-factor congeneric, orthogonal measurement model was rejected for all groups. However, a two-factor model that allowed cross-loadings among the items and correlation between the factors provided adequate fit. Concurrent validity data showed scores on both the Impression Management and Self-Deceptive Enhancement (SDE) scales to be satisfactory measures of their respective constructs and also of general social desirability, for both forensic clients and undergraduates. An exception was found in lower validity correlates for scores on the SDE scale in the PDS form. (Contains 6 tables.) |
| Abstractor: | Author |
| Number of References: | 39 |
| Entry Date: | 2007 |
| Accession Number: | EJ774674 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | The internal and external validity of scores on the two-scale Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) and its recent revision, the Paulhus Deception Scales (PDS), developed to measure two facets of social desirability, were studied with three groups of forensic clients and two groups of college undergraduates (total N = 519). The two scales were statistically significantly related in all groups and for both versions of the inventory. A two-factor congeneric, orthogonal measurement model was rejected for all groups. However, a two-factor model that allowed cross-loadings among the items and correlation between the factors provided adequate fit. Concurrent validity data showed scores on both the Impression Management and Self-Deceptive Enhancement (SDE) scales to be satisfactory measures of their respective constructs and also of general social desirability, for both forensic clients and undergraduates. An exception was found in lower validity correlates for scores on the SDE scale in the PDS form. (Contains 6 tables.) |
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| ISSN: | 0013-1644 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0013164406299104 |
