An Indigenous Social Desirability Scale

Abstract

We describe an Indigenous Social Desirability Scale for Mexico developed using a mixed-methods approach. Scores on the scale with two dimensions show adequate reliability and validity.

• socially desirable responding
• impression management
• indigenous measure

We would like to thank the following collaborators in alphabetic order, for their support in collecting data and process preliminary analyses: Rosa María Córdova Álvarez, Rodrigo Antonio Galán Mendoza, José María Jiménez Orvañanos, Miguel Ángel Méndez García, María Emilia Orozco del Pino and María Teresa Pinelo Nava. We also want to thank Oscar Flores and Aida Cortés Flores for their support in facilitating the procedure for collecting the inmate population data.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/orPUBLICation of this article.

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Alejandra del Carmen Domínguez Espinosa

Alejandra del Carmen Domínguez Espinosa obtained her PhD in social psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with honorable mention in 2003. She holds a full-time researcher position at the Iberoamerican University since 2004. Her research involves response styles, acculturation, and indigenous psychology measurement.

Fons J. R. van de Vijver

Fons J. R. van de Vijver holds a PhD from Tilburg University. He holds a chair in cross-cultural psychology at Tilburg University. He has published more than 350PUBLICations, mainly in the domain of cross-cultural psychology. His research involves bias and equivalence, psychological acculturation and multiculturalism, cognitive similarities, response styles, translations, and adaptations.