Social desirability and self-ratings of intakes, patients in treatment, and controls.

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Abstract
Self-ratings on intakes correlate with item desirability as self-ratings of student and nonstudent controls. Self-descriptions of patients show only slight correspondence with cultural desirability stereotypes. Therapists'' ratings of patients'' traits did not correlate with social desirability. Self-descriptive techniques tend to have potential clinical and experimental utility. The self-descriptions of those in therapy corresponded much less with item desirability than with those seeking help who had not experienced psychotherapy. Social desirability and self-ratings correlated to about the same degree as self-ratings of controls. With items classified as undesirable, slightly undesirable, and desirable patients rated themselves higher than intakes, and intakes rated themselves higher than controls on undesirable and slightly undesirable items.

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