La escala de deseabilidad social de Marlowe-Crowne como instrumento para la medida de la deseabilidad social, la sinceridad y otros constructos relacionados en psicología legal y forense
- Jesús Sanz 1
- Roberto Navarro 1
- Rocío Fausor 1
- Pedro Altungy 1
- Clara Gesteira 1
- Noelia Morán 1
- María Paz García Vera 1
- 1 Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Psicología Clínica Universidad Complutense de Madrid
ISSN: 1576-9941
Year of publication: 2018
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Pages: 112-133
Type: Article
More publications in: Psicopatología Clínica Legal y Forense
Abstract
The objective of this article is to describe the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (M-C SDS) and review its psychometric properties, especially concerning its most widely used Spanish adaptation, both in its original format and its brief version. The M-C SDS is one of the most widely used and validated instruments for measuring social desirability understood as response bias when responding to psychological assessment instruments. In this article, the construct of social desirability is examined and compared with other constructs related to lack of sincerity (e.g., self-deception, impression management, faking, dissimulation, malingering, feigning, defensiveness), the application, correction and interpretation of the MC SDS as a measure of social desirability are exaplained in detail, especially in the field of forensic and legal psychology, and the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the M-C SDS with that objective and in that context are discussed