PSY 309 Results - Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding

The BIDR is designed to measure Self-Deceptive Enhancement and Impression Management. These can be defined as follows:

Self-Deceptive Enhnacement (SDE) intends to capture the tendency to give honest but inflated self-descriptions reflecting a lack of insight and an unconscious bias toward favorable self-portrayal.


Impression Management (IM)involves conscious use of inflated self-descriptions, faking, or lying, and is thought to indicate hypersensitivity to situational self-presentation demands.


To read more about the BIDR, see:

Paulhus, D.L. (1991). Measurement and control of response bias. In J.P. Robinson, P.R. Shaver, and L.S. Wrightsman (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes. San Diego: Academic Press.



Your Scores

Remember, your scores are presented in z-scores. For a review of how to interpret z-scores, click here.

ID	SDE	IM
101	-.15	.49
111	2.33	2.36
219	-.65	-.58
254	-.40	-.31
259	-.65	-.85
283	-1.24	-.85
295	-1.14	-.04
310	-.15	.76
311	-.65	-.31
366	-.40	.22
371	-.40	1.29
457	-.15	-1.38
539	-.40	-.58
648	1.83	-.58
755	-1.24	-.85
757	-1.14	-1.11
796	.10	-.04
810	2.33	2.36
873	-.15	.49
885	-.15	-1.11
897	-.90	.49
910	-.65	-1.11
955	-.15	-.04
961	.35	.76
987	1.34	.49

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