title: Validating an inventory for the assessment of egoistic bias and moralistic bias as two separable components of social desirability.
abstract: The psychometric properties of the German adaptation of the balanced inventory of desirable responding were investigated. This 2-factor inventory taps the egoistic bias and the moralistic bias as the 2 distinguishable components of social desirability. In 2 validation studies, both subscales showed satisfactory internal consistency and temporal stability. To examine convergent and discriminant validity, the scales were correlated with those of a measure of unrealistic optimism, various measures of self-enhancement, 1-dimensional scales of social desirability, and the tendency to overclaim in a test of general knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany. jochen.musch@uni-duesseldorf.de
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Musch
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ostapczuk
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Klaiber
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000533:Altruism; D008192:Deception; D004989:Ethics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009014:Morals; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011936:Reality Testing; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012928:Social Desirability; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D055815:Young Adult