A Reliability Generalization Study of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale

Beretvas, S. Natasha; Meyers, Jason L.; Leite, Walter L.

doi:10.1177/001316402128775021

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“…Internal consistency was .63 indicating that it may not be acceptable. However, studies have consistently found lower reliabilities on this scale among males (Beretvas et al 2002). A sum score was computed so that higher scores on this scale would reflect a greater tendency to respond in socially desirable ways.…”

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confidence: 97%

Psychosocial Correlates of Medical Mistrust Among African American Men

Hammond

2010

American J of Comm Psychol

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The current study proposed and tested a conceptual model of medical mistrust in a sample of African American men (N = 216) recruited primarily from barbershops in the Midwest and Southeast regions of the United States. Potential psychosocial correlates were grouped into background factors, masculine role identity/socialization factors, recent healthcare experiences, recent socioenvironmental experiences (e.g., discrimination), and healthcare system outcome expectations (e.g., perceived racism in healthcare). Direct and mediated relationships were assessed. Results from the hierarchical regression analyses suggest that perceived racism in healthcare was the most powerful correlate of medical mistrust even after controlling for other factors. Direct effects were found for age, masculine role identity, recent patient-physician interaction quality, and discrimination experiences. Also, perceived racism in healthcare mediated the relationship between discrimination experiences and medical mistrust. These findings suggest that African American men's mistrust of healthcare organizations is related to personal characteristics, previous negative social/healthcare experiences, and expectations of disparate treatment on the basis of race. These findings also imply that aspects of masculine role identity shape the tone of patient-physician interactions in ways that impede trust building processes.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Psychosocial Correlates of Medical Mistrust Among African American Men

Hammond

2010

American J of Comm Psychol

204

176

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“…Some research indicated social desirability can be used as the standard measure to control whether questionnaire responses are biased by desirable responding by comparing the correlations between social desirability response tendencies and the score of focal scales. If the correlations is not substantial, the discriminant validity of focal scales is proved to be satisfactory [37][38][39][40].…”

Section: Marlowe-crowne Social Desirability Scalementioning

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Testing the psychometric properties of Mandarin version of the fertility problem inventory (M-FPI) in an infertile Chinese sample

Peng¹,

Coates

Merriman

et al. 2011

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology

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The Fertility Problem Inventory (FPI) is an instrument to measure infertility-related stress, and has been widely used in a range of clinical settings. It has been translated into several languages, however there is no validated Mandarin version. The present study tests the psychometric properties of the Mandarin version of FPI (M-FPI). A hospital sample of 223 infertile Chinese couples (223 men and 223 women) completed the M-FPI along with other measures including demographics, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, which were used to assess the reliability and validity of the Mandarin version of FPI. Results showed that the M-FPI was best reduced to a five? factor solution, and all 46 items of the M-FPI showed moderate to high internal consistency. In addition, the test of convergent and discriminant validity from this study indicated satisfactory results. These results indicate that the M-FPI as an instrument is reliable and valid for use with infertile Chinese couples in clinical assessment.

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“…Means and standard deviations for internal consistency reliability coefficients versus test-retest reliability coefficients are also presented in Table 2. It has been noted that RG studies can employ a wide array of statistical methods when conducting the actual analyses, including multiple linear regression (Vacha-Haase, 1998), bivariate correlation , canonical correlation analysis (Vacha-Haase, 1998), analysis of variance (Caruso, 2000), and mixed-effects hierarchical linear modeling (Beretvas, Meyers, & Leite, 2002 [this issue]). However, several subscales generated the most reliable scores across studies, namely the three subscales of the PAQ and the Trust and Communication subscales of the IPPA.…”

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A Reliability Generalization Study of Select Measures of Adult Attachment Style

Reese

Kieffer

Briggs

2002

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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The concept of attachment has been discussed and debated in the psychological literature for quite some time. More recently, the concept of attachment has been extended to adults, and several measures that purport to measure attachment style have been developed. The purpose of the present study was to provide a reliability generalization study of five of the most prominent adult attachment style measures. Reliability generalization, a relatively new meta-analytic reliability procedure, was used to (a) identify the typical reliability of scores across instruments and studies and (b) examine sources of measurement error across instruments and studies. Results from this investigation of 154 previously published research studies indicated that the average score reliability across studies varied considerably across instruments and subscales. Implications for the use of self-report measures of adult attachment style are offered.Most former psychology students can remember back to their "Psychological Tests and Measurements" course and recall hearing something similar to, "A test is useful to the extent that it is reliable and valid." This ubiquitous phrase implicitly teaches students to conceptualize these two cornerstones of testing as fixed and nascent qualities of the test itself. Although students also typically learn in the same course that sample-specific

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A Reliability Generalization Study of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale

Cited by 57 publications

References 8 publications

Psychosocial Correlates of Medical Mistrust Among African American Men

Psychosocial Correlates of Medical Mistrust Among African American Men

Testing the psychometric properties of Mandarin version of the fertility problem inventory (M-FPI) in an infertile Chinese sample

A Reliability Generalization Study of Select Measures of Adult Attachment Style

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