Abstract
This study involved the construction of a social desirability (SD) scale for children and an investigation of intercorrelations among SD, anxiety, lie scales, and reading and arithmetic achievement. The SD scale was empirically derived from an item pool on the basis of strength of agreement as to SD response among children responding under the SD-set. SD correlated moderately and negatively with two of the three anxiety scales, positively with one of two lie scales, and was uncorrelated with achievement. A factor analysis of the intercorrelations among the eight tests defined three rotated, nonorthogonal factors labeled anxiety, achievement, and SD.
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