{
  "creator": [
    "Haghighat, Rahman"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2007-11-29"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Topic: The objective of this work is to devise a brief, practical,  reliable and valid social desirability instrument for use in contexts  where a short scale is useful for example in the assessment of social  desirability factor in psychiatric patients. Hypothesis: Social Desirability factor which is the tendency to respond  in a socially desirable manner to attitudinal questionnaires affects the  validity of attitudinal questionnaires. Method & Participants: A five-item social desirability factor was  devised using themes from a written record of patients’ conversation and  cross-validated on 61 subjects. Reliability was computed using Cronbach  Alpha method.  The result is a brief reliable and valid 4-item social  desirability scale. Conclusion & Significance: The Brief Social Desirability Scale  (BSDS) has the advantages of brevity and practicality. It can be used  before administering attitudinal surveys in order to factor in the  effect of the social desirability on attitudinal questionnaires.  BSDS  is preferred in many test situations where the administration time is  limited or subjects are unable to bear lengthy questionnaires and the  related drop in reliability due to brevity of the scale remains  tolerable."
  ],
  "format": [
    "text/html"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/417",
    "10.5964/ejop.v3i4.417"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/417/417.html"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 3 No. 4 (2007)",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Social Desirability",
    "Attitudinal Questionnaire",
    "Stigmatization"
  ],
  "title": [
    "The Development of the Brief Social Desirability Scale (BSDS)"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}