Contamination in Measures of Acquiescence and Social Desirability
- 1 June 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 16 (3) , 759-760
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1965.16.3.759
Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to report data which seem to indicate that many scales which have been proposed as measures of single response sets are actually complex scales measuring at least two independent dimensions of behavior.Keywords
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