The Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17): Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, and Relations

By J. Stöber. 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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Who's Posting Facebook Faux Pas? A Cross-Cultural Examination of Personality Differences (2010, neutral): “Stober, J. (2001). The social desirability scale-17 (SDS-17):”
Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait (2008, neutral): “The scale shows good convergent validity with other measures of social desirability, high sensitivity to desirability provoking instructions (job applications), and all of the items have been recently rated as highly socially desirable (Stöber, 2001).”
What matters most to prejudice: Big Five personality, Social Dominance Orientation, or Right‐Wing Authoritarianism? (2004, background): “Social desirability has been found to be correlated with one Big Five factor (Agreeableness) at least (see e.g. Stöber, 2001).”
How do we know if it works? Measuring outcomes in bystander-focused abuse prevention on campuses (2014, neutral): “Social Desirability (Stöber, 2001).”
Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating (2005, background): “001, two-tailed) to a social desirability measure (Stöber 2001) in my sample B.”
The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding Short Form (BIDR-16) (2015, background): “Despite being the most frequently cited SDR scale, the MCSDS’s length, outdated wording, and low reliability limits its practicality (Ballard, Crino, & Rubenfeld, 1988; Beretvas et al., 2002; Stöber, 2001).”
Psychometric Properties of the Social Desirability Scale-17 with Individuals on Probation and Parole in the United States (2014, methodology): “However, after subsequent research, one item was dropped due to poor internal consistency, resulting in the currently used 16-item version (Stober, 2001).”
Controlling social desirability bias (2018, background): “Stober (2001) proposed a 16-item SDB scale, called SDS-17.”
Psychometric Qualities of the UCLA Loneliness Scale-Version 3 as Applied in a Turkish Culture (2010, methodology): “The Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17) was developed by Stöber (2001) in order to evaluate socially desirable responses with 17 items (e.g., ‘‘I never hesitate to help someone in case of emergency’’ or ‘‘In traffic I am always polite and considerate of others’’).”
Predictive validity of an Implicit Association Test for assessing anxiety. (2002, methodology): “The revised form of the Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17R; Stöber, 2001) was used to measure social desirability.”
Adolescents' self‐attributed moral emotions following a moral transgression: Relations with delinquency, confidence in moral judgment and age (2006, background): “It has sufficient reliability and convergent as well as discriminant validity (Stöber, 2001).”
Engagement with natural beauty moderates the positive relation between connectedness with nature and psychological well-being (2014, methodology): “Further, given researcher’s concern for social desirable responding in survey research (Paulhus, 1984), we controlled for social desirability (Stöber, 2001).”
Self-related and motivational constructs as determinants of aggression.: An analysis and validation of a German version of the Buss–Perry Aggression Questionnaire (2005, background): “, 1996; German version by Stucke, 2002), and a measure of Social desirability (Stöber, 2001; 8 items of the German version by Stöber, 1999).”
True Confessions?: Alumni's Retrospective Reports on Undergraduate Cheating Behaviors (2009, methodology): “The Social Desirability Scale-17 (SDS-17; Stöber, 2001) was used to measure participants’desire to make a good impression.”