Performance on the Marlowe-Crowne Scale and its Perceived Purpose

Influence of social desirability on symptom and mood reporting in a community survey.

“…Differential responses to the Marlowe-Crowne SDS based on sex, race, age, IQ, need for approval, perception of purpose, birth orderj educational level, and crime have been researched by many authors, among them Strahan and Strahan (1972), Shrauger (1972), Mclaughlin and Hewitt (1972), Goldfried (1964), Katkin (1966), Johnson (1973), Asch (19S6), Crutchfield (19SS), Tuddenham (1958), Janis and Fields (1956), Gergen andMarlowe (1970), andFisher (1967).…”

Buffers Items, Insight, and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale

“…Although comparison of the proportion of insight responses in this study with that of Shrauger's (1972) was not the principal aim of this research, the rather striking difference -.12 versus .27, a factor of two -is clearly a matter of interest.…”

“…That this may not be so, and the consequences of this possibility, are suggested by the work of Shrauger (1972). He reported that about a quarter of his college student subjects guessed the purpose of MC and that these subjects had significantly lower scores than others who lacked such insight.…”

“…In either case, a more straightforward interpretation of MC level would follow from restriction of the sources of its variance (cf. Shrauger, 1972; and for evidence against a single MC variation source, Strahan & Strahan, 1972).…”

“…Insightful subiects' receiving lower MC scores i e e d not "necessarily suggest scale invalidity, e.g., tendency toward insight might be a concomitant trait of those who are low in social desirability (Shrauger, 1972). On the other hand, insight might be unrelated to social desirability level and thus contribute to invalid score variance.…”