Psychiatry related information on Social Desirability

• After the interview, in addition to GH, anxiety was measured using the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS), and defensiveness using the Crowne Marlowe Social Desirability Scale (SD) [1].
• Sixty-two undergraduates were administered the Rorschach, Barron Ego Strength Scale, Kaplan Self-Derogation Scale, Eagly Self-Esteem Scale, Multiple Affective Adjective Checklist (MAACL), Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, and the Rotter Locus of Control Scale [2].
• In a comparison of Dominance Scale scores with related constructs of interest, Authority was found to be most closely related to a measure of decision-making power and to social desirability [3].
• Bloom has defended the forced-choice form of the Machiavellianism scale from observations by Ray that such scales have intrinsic validity problems--particularly with social desirability [4].

High impact information on Social Desirability

• The Personal Orientation Inventory, Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Levenson's Internal and Powerful Others Locus of Control Scales, and the Embedded Figures Test were administered to matched groups of 35 bipolar manic-depressives and 35 normal comparison subjects [5].
• A total of 444 healthy individuals completed the 21-item PDI and two other questionnaires measuring florid delusions and social desirability [6].
• METHOD: In Study 1, 53 people completed the EQ, Social Desirability Scale (SDS) and a non-verbal mental state inference test, the Eyes Task [7].
• OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of social desirability (SD) responding ("defensiveness") and cortisol levels [8].
• No differences were found between CFS and RA patients in measures of perfectionism, attitudes toward mental illness, defensiveness, social desirability, or sensitivity to punishment (a concept related to neuroticism), on either crude or adjusted analyses [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Social Desirability

• In drug users, bufotenin excretion was correlated positively with social desirability and negatively with irritability, but not with suspiciousness [10].
• Participants were administered the Sixteen Personality Factor Test, Social Desirability Scale [11].
• We used the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory-3 because it includes both face valid and subtle items to control for social desirability [12].
• The male methadone patients had significantly (p < 0.0001) higher scores on somatic anxiety, muscular tension, impulsiveness, and psychasthenia, and significantly lower scores with regard to socialization, social desirability, and inhibited aggression compared with the controls [13].

Gene context of Social Desirability

• The present study compares the self-reported personality characteristics of heroin addict and nonaddict prisoners using the Edwards Personality Preference Schedule (EPPS) which was corrected for social desirability [14].
• In contrast, for academic performance estimates, boys in both groups increased their performance estimates after receiving positive versus average or no feedback, and estimates were not correlated with self-esteem or social desirability for boys with ADHD [15].
• Weak negative correlations were found between serum DBH and the personality variables social desirability and indirect aggression, but an earlier finding of a positive correlation with the personality trait monotony avoidance, could not be confirmed [16].
• Two subscales were significantly elevated, social desirability (for CF mothers and fathers) and denial (for CF mothers only), describing an important response style which may enhance mastery of long-term stress.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)[17]
• Research is reviewed which indicates the potential utility of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCS) in a variety of clinical assessment contexts [18].

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