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Article: Self-deceptive enhancement and impression management correlates of EPQ-R dimensions. (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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A great deal of research has been carried out on socially desirable responding in self-report questionnaires (Edwards, 1957; Furnham, 1986; McCrae & Costa, 1983; Nederhof, 1985; Norman, 1967; Sudman & Bradburn, 1974). Socially desirable responding is typically taken to indicate a positive bias in self-reports and presenting oneself in a favorable light. One common method of investigating socially desirable responding is to correlate an established measure of social desirability, such as the Edwards (1957) or Marlowe-Crowne (Crowne & Marlowe, 1960) scales, with scores on the self-report instrument. A second method is to manipulate respondents' motivations and to assess ...