Abstract
It has been observed that correlations between the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (M-C SDS) and the standard MMPI scales were higher for a psychiatric patient sample than for college students. The suggestion had been made that the correlational differences with these two types of samples were due to the more curtailed distributions of MMPI scores with college students. These previously reported correlations, based on college students, were corrected for curtailment regarding the MMPI variables. The corrections utilized variability estimates based on psychiatric patient samples. The corrected (for curtailment) values were noticeably larger and resembled in magnitude those reported for psychiatric patients.
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