ADAPTION AND PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE SHORT FORMS MARLOWE-CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE WITH A SAMPLE OF GREEK UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Nowadays more and more self-report measures are used in social psychology, where many of them are susceptible to response bias. Socially Desirable Responding (SDR) might be interpreted in terms of measurement bias. The present study, with a sample of 173 Greek university students, used confirmatory factor analysis to establish the adequacy of Reynolds (1982) three subscales from the original 33 item version of Crowne & Marlowe (1960) in measuring social desirability. Results showed that the three short forms of social desirability scale provide satisfactory measures of social desirability, while the subscale with the smaller number of items presented improved measures in comparison to all other subscales.