Social Desirability and Wiggins's MMPI Content Scales.

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    • Subject Terms:
      SOCIAL desirability; MOTIVATION (Psychology); SOCIAL psychology; PERSONALITY; SCALING (Social sciences)
    • Abstract:
      Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) item pool, Wiggins (1966) developed 13 scales, each with a homogeneous content. The 13 scales, along with marker scales for the 1st 3 MMPI factors, Edwards's social desirability (SD), Welsh's repression (R), and Wiggins's social desirability (Sd) respectively, were scored in the MMPI. The same scales were scored in an Experimental Multiphasic Personality Inventory (EMPI). A principal-components analysis of the 16 scales when scored in the MMPI resulted in 4 factors. A principal-components analysis of these same scales when scored in the EMPI also resulted in 4 factors. The rotated factor loadings of the scales when scored in the MMPI and when scored in the EMPI were found to be highly congruent. The SD, R, and Sdscales proved to be excellent markers for the 1st 3 factors of the MMPI and also for the 1st 3 factors of the EMPI. Results provide further evidence that the 1st MMPI factor is a social desirability factor rather than a content factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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