TY - JOUR
T1 - The Marlowe-Crowne affair
T2 - Short forms, psychometric structure, and social desirability
AU - Barger, Steven D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by a Northern Arizona University Organized Research Grant. I thank Virginia Blankenship and Heidi Wayment for their helpful feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript.
PY - 2002/10
Y1 - 2002/10
N2 - The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scale (Crowne & Marlowe, 1960) is widely used to assess and control for response bias in self-report research. Several abbreviated versions of the Marlowe-Crowne scale have been proposed and adopted in psychology and medicine. In this article I evaluate the adequacy of 9 short forms using confirmatory factor analysis across 2 samples (combined N = 867). There was some evidence for the adequacy of different short forms, but model adequacy was not consistent across samples. Supplementary analyses revealed a multidimensional structure to the full Marlowe-Crowne scale and indicated that the apparent adequacy of model fit for some short forms might be a statistical artifact. Using the Marlowe-Crowne scale or its various short forms as a control for response bias is discouraged on empirical and conceptual grounds.
AB - The Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability scale (Crowne & Marlowe, 1960) is widely used to assess and control for response bias in self-report research. Several abbreviated versions of the Marlowe-Crowne scale have been proposed and adopted in psychology and medicine. In this article I evaluate the adequacy of 9 short forms using confirmatory factor analysis across 2 samples (combined N = 867). There was some evidence for the adequacy of different short forms, but model adequacy was not consistent across samples. Supplementary analyses revealed a multidimensional structure to the full Marlowe-Crowne scale and indicated that the apparent adequacy of model fit for some short forms might be a statistical artifact. Using the Marlowe-Crowne scale or its various short forms as a control for response bias is discouraged on empirical and conceptual grounds.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15327752JPA7902_11
DO - 10.1207/S15327752JPA7902_11
M3 - Article
C2 - 12425392
AN - SCOPUS:0036775805
SN - 0022-3891
VL - 79
SP - 286
EP - 305
JO - Journal of Personality Assessment
JF - Journal of Personality Assessment
IS - 2
ER -