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The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR), also known as the Paulhus Deception Scales (Paulhus 1999), is a 40-item self-report inventory with one scale that assesses a deliberate socially desirable response style and another scale that assesses a nondeliberate socially desirable response style.
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The BIDR measures a respondent’s tendency to distort his/her self-report responses in order to reflect socially desirable responses rather than accurate answers about the self. The BIDR has two, 20-item scales: self-deceptive enhancement (SDE) assesses nondeliberate socially desirable responding, where the respondent in fact believes the desirable responses are accurate self-reports, whereas impression management (IM) assesses socially desirable responding, where the respondent knows the responses are deliberately inaccurate.
The inventory is appropriate for adults and adolescents age 16 years or older, for both nonclinical...
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Holden, R.R., Fekken, G.C. (2017). Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_3-1
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