Preliminary study of a chinese language short form of the marlowe-crowne social desirability scale

Psychological Reports

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1039-1046

  Tao, Peng ^a   Guoying, Dong ^b   Brody, Stuart ^c  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB FINDING; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB APPLICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77950349146     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.105.F.1039-1046     Document Type: Article

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