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The Michill Adjective Ratings Scale (MARS): The differential social desirability of factors
Author(s) -
Quereshi M. Y.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198701)43:1<123::aid-jclp2270430120>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , normative , psychosocial , extraversion and introversion , social psychology , interpersonal communication , rating scale , adjective , adjective check list , semantic differential , assertiveness , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , personality , big five personality traits , psychotherapist , philosophy , linguistics , physics , noun , epistemology , quantum mechanics
The Michill Adjective Rating Scale (MARS) measures four relatively independent factors (unhappiness, extraversion, self‐assertiveness, and productive‐persistence) and has been used for studying interpersonal perception and attribution processes in both normal and abnormal populations. Although procedures for administering and scoring MARS, as well as the normative data, are available in published sources, information about the differential social desirability of the factors is being presented here for the first time in order to facilitate the experimental use of MARS in those clinical and psychosocial research settings in which the social desirability of factors has considerable influence on the interpretation and applicability of findings ( N = 338).