Abstract
A multidimensional social desirability inventory was revised in order to facilitate the usefulness and improve the precision of measurement of its four subscales. The original inventory was based on a conception of the importance of attribution and denial as central and quantifiable elements in self-descriptive statements differing in social desirability value. The 442 subjects participated in a series of investigations that resulted in the creation of a 128-item scale with 32 items in each of the following categories: attribution of positive traits, attribution of negative traits, denial of positive traits, and denial of negative traits. The importance of providing operational definitions for the measurement and quantification of sources of variation in self-descriptive statements was discussed.
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