‘Marlow-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS-C) Read each item and decide whether itis true (T) or false (F) for you. Try to work rapidly and answer each question by clicking on the T or the F TE 2) [tis sometimes hard for me to go on with my work if| am not encouraged. 2) | sometimes feel resentful when I don’t get my way. 3) On a few occasions, | have given up doing something because | thought too little of my ability. 44) There have been times when | felt like rebelling against people in authority even though | knew they were right. '5)_No matter who I'm talking to, 'm always a good listener. 6) There have been occasions when | took advantage of someone. 7)_I'm always willing to admit it when I make a mistake. '8) I sometimes try to get even rather than forgive and forget. '9) Iam always courteous, even to people who are disagreeable, 110)! have never been irked when people expressed ideas very different from my own. 111)There have been times when | was quite jealous of the good fortune of others. 12)| am sometimes irritated by people who ask favors of me. 13)! have never deliberately said something that hurt someone's feelings. Scoring and Interpretation ‘True and false answers to Items 5, 7, 9, 10, and 13 are given one and zero points, respectively. For Items 1, 2, 3,4, 6, 8, 11, and 12, true and false answers are given zero and one points, respectively. Composite scores which can range from 0 to 13 are then summed with higher participant scores indicating a greater tendency to misrepresent themselves in a positive way (“fake good”) and lower participant scores indicating a greater tendency to misrepresent themselves in a negative way ("fake bad”; Lambert et al., 2016). Based on the cutoff scores proposed by Lambert et al, scores on the MCSDS-C (Reynolds, 1982) from four to eight will be considered acceptable, whereas scores from respondents below four or greater than eight will be disqualified from the study. Informed by Reynolds, 1982