Bridging Psychometrics and Survey Methodology: Can Mixed Rasch Models Identify Socially Desirable Reporting Behavior?

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ZEINA N. MNEIMNEH is with the Survey Research Operations, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. STEVEN G. HEERINGA is with the Survey Methodology Program, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. ROGER TOURANGEAU is with Westat. MICHAEL R. ELLIOTT is with the Survey Methodology Program, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. The Lebanese National Mental Health Survey (LEBANON) is carried out in conjunction with the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative, which is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH; R01 MH070884), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Pfizer Foundation, the U.S. Public Health Service (R13-MH066849, R01-MH069864, and R01 DA016558), the Fogarty International Center (FIRCA R03-TW006481), the Pan American Health Organization, Eli Lilly and Company, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. We thank the staff of the WMH Data Collection and Data Analysis Coordination Centres for assistance with instrumentation, fieldwork, and consultation on data analysis. None of the funders had any role in the design, analysis, interpretation of results, or preparation of this article. A complete list of all within-country and cross-national WMH publications can be found at http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/. The LEBANON is supported by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, the WHO (Lebanon), National Institute of Health/Fogarty International Center (R03 TW006481-01), Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, anonymous private donations to IDRAAC, Lebanon, and unrestricted grants from AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Hikma Pharm, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, Servier, and Novartis. We thank Mick Couper for his review and discussion of this manuscript; Elie Karam (the principal investigator) for giving us access to the data and for insightful discussions on the topic; Elie Karam, Aimee Nasser Karam, and John Fayyad for their great contribution to the design of the survey and fieldwork support; Hagop Akiskal for insights into the structure of the temperament construct and the development of the scale; Caroline Cordahi Tabet and Lilian Ghandour for their work in interviewer training and adaptation of the CIDI 3.0; Yasmine Chatila for her work in supervising the fieldwork and data cleaning; and Mariana Salamoun for management of the temperament data. Joseph Sedransk served as the editor on this article. *Address correspondence to Michael R. Elliott, Survey Methodology Program, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 498109; E-mail: mrelliot@umich.edu.