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Paulus Deception Scale

Effectively identify individuals 16+, who distort their responses during assessments.

  • Publisher
    MHS
  • Age range
    16+
  • Qualification Level
    B
  • Administration Time
    5 to 7 mins

Product & Details

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Full Product Description

The Paulhus Deception Scales (PDS) is a self–report instrument that identifies individuals who, when responding to assessments and rating scales, distort their responses. Designed to be administered concurrently with other instruments, the PDS has been used to successfully identify individuals who might have distorted their responses when completing other clinical and/or personality diagnostic instruments.

Key Features:

  • Assesses socially desirable responding both as a response set and a response style
  • Contains 40 items that use contemporary, gender–neutral language
  • Backed by extensive empirical confirmation of reliability and validity, and is appropriate for both clinical and nonclinical samples
  • May also be used in educational and human resource settings and can provide an index for comparing the power of different administration conditions to elicit desirable responding
  • Useful in instrument development and evaluation
  • Online scoring provides instantly generated reports with statistical, textual, and graphical interpretations of a respondent’s results

Key Areas Measured

Self–Deception Enhancement:The tendency to give honest but inflated self–descriptions

Impression Management: The tendency to give inflated self–descriptions because of contextual factors

These two subscales allow the PDS to capture both principal forms of socially desirable responding. This approach accepts that respondents may display only one kind of desirable responding, or neither, or both.

Reliability and Validity

Scientific Validation

Construct validity issues including evidence for the convergent and discriminant validity of each subscale, are explored in the PDS Manual. Nine supportive studies are summarized demonstrating that the SDE scores are positively associated with objective indicators of distortion (i.e., overconfidence, hindsight bias, over–claiming, and self–inflation). The SDE scores also exhibit positive correlation with self–report and peer–rated measures of adjustment, whereas IM scores show minimal correlation. Scores on the IM scale, however, are more sensitive than SDE scores to situational demands for self–presentation.

Normative Data

The normative sample for the PDS consisted of 1,457 individuals – 441 from the general North American population, 289 college students, 603 prison entrants, and 124 military recruits.

 

Components

Paulus Deception Scale Manual

CODE: PDS2PA

€103.89 Excl.VAT

PDS Quikscore forms, 25pk

CODE: PDS3P0

€143.68 Excl.VAT

MHS Qualification levels

A–level products do not require any specific qualifications.

B–level products require that the user has completed graduate–level courses in tests and measurement at a university or has received equivalent documented training.

C–level products require fulfillment of b–level qualifications, and users must have training and/or experience in the use of tests and must have completed an advanced degree in an appropriate profession (e.g., psychology, psychiatry). Depending on state requirements, membership in a relevant professional organization (e.g., APA) or a state license/certificate in psychology or psychiatry may be necessary.

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