Response Bias in Surveys of Mental Health: An Empirical Investigation

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1965 • 27,951 citations

A Self-Rating Depression Scale

1965 • 8,816 citations

The Structure of Psychological Well-Being.

1970 • 4,990 citations

The Quality of American Life: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Satisfactions.

1977 • 2,018 citations

The Approval Motive: Studies in Evaluative Dependence

1965 • 1,963 citations

The Social Desirability Variable in Personality Assessment and Research.

1959 • 1,404 citations

Americans View Their Mental Health, 1957

1984 • 1,137 citations

Adult Sex Roles and Mental Illness

1973 • 965 citations

A Twenty-Two Item Screening Score of Psychiatric Symptoms Indicating Impairment

1962 • 896 citations

Yeasayers and naysayers: Agreeing response set as a personality variable.

1960 • 665 citations

The relationship between the judged desirability of a trait and the probability that the trait will be endorsed.

1953 • 580 citations

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1967 • 518 citations

Some Effects of "Social Desirability" in Survey Studies

1972 • 481 citations

The great response-style myth.

1965 • 434 citations

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1970 • 317 citations

Sexual Status and Psychiatric Symptoms

1969 • 294 citations

Interviewing in Social Research

1955 • 289 citations

The Health Opinion Survey: Technique for Estimating Prevalence of Psychoneurotic and Related Types of Disorder in Communities

1957 • 286 citations

Polygraph and Interview Validation of Self-Reported Deviant Behavior

1966 • 208 citations

Social Status and Psychological Disorder: An Issue of Substance and an Issue of Method

1966 • 159 citations

The 22-Item Scale Used In Field Studies of Mental Illness: A Question of Method, a Question of Substance, and a Question of Theory

1973 • 155 citations

Age and the Measurement of Mental Health

1972 • 146 citations

Psychiatric Symptoms in Community, Clinic, and Mental Hospital Groups

1970 • 102 citations

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1970 • 99 citations

Influence of social desirability on symptom and mood reporting in a community survey.

1975 • 81 citations

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1972 • 72 citations

Self-appraisal, personal desirability, and perceived social desirability of personality traits.

1956 • 69 citations

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Social-learning theory, social desirability, and the MMPI.

1964 • 51 citations

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1974 • 51 citations

Social desirability in the MMPI and Welsh's factor scales A and R.

1959 • 48 citations

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1959 • 40 citations