Control of test-taking attitudes on forced-choice, self-report personality inventories has been concerned largely with pathological content. The IPAT and Marlowe-Crowne were administered to 100 psychiatric workers (9 nurses, 31 experienced aides, and 60 aides of moderate experience) to measure anxiety generated by a major change in roles. of the 5 IPAT scores possible, only Q correlated significantly with Crowne-Marlowe (r = −0.44, p = .01). The results seem to support the Marlowe-Crowne definition of social approval and suggest the IPAT is less vulnerable to response distortion influenced by the need of social acceptability.
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