THE BALANCED INVENTORY OF DESIRABLE RESPONDING

COMMERCIAL VERSION: BIDR-7

This version must be used by anyone benefitting financially from its use. For example, it should be used

by practicing clinicians, consulting companies, by researchers with large scale grants, and in clinical trials.

The manual and copies of the inventory may be obtained from the publisher, Multi-Health Systems of

Toronto/Buffalo.          customer_service@mhs.com

Paulhus, D.L. (1998). Manual for the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding: Version 7. Toronto/Buffalo: Multi-Health Systems.

The publisher also refers to the inventory as the Paulhus Deception Scales (PDS).

RESEARCH VERSION: BIDR-6

This version may be used for non-commercial purposes only, that is, pure research. A copy may be found

in the following published chapter. There is no current manual for this version, but the chapter includes

background information and norms, as well as the inventory itself.

Paulhus, D.L. (1991). Measurement and control of response bias. In J.P. Robinson, P.R. Shaver, & L.S. Wrightsman (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes (pp.17-59). New York: Academic Press.

Researchers are requested to summarize the results for me and send a copy of any published results.

SELF-DECEPTIVE DENIAL

A third type of desirable responding is self-deceptive (as is the SDE) but involves a repudiation of negative characteristics. The construct is similar to the traditional notion of defensiveness (see Sackeim & Gur, 1978).

The items are not as well-researched but can be added to the BIDR-6 for a combined 60 item inventory.

Here are the items with some tentative norms.....................SDD scale