An Indigenous Social Desirability Scale

AbstractWe describe an Indigenous Social Desirability Scale for Mexico developed using a mixed-methods approach. Scores on the scale with two dimensions show adequate reliability and validity.Keywordssocially desirable respondingimpression managementindigenous measure We would like to thank the following collaborators in alphabetic order, for their support in collecting data and process preliminary analyses: Rosa María Córdova Álvarez, Rodrigo Antonio Galán Mendoza, José María Jiménez Orvañanos, Miguel Ángel Méndez García, María Emilia Orozco del Pino and María Teresa Pinelo Nava. We also want to thank Oscar Flores and Aida Cortés Flores for their support in facilitating the procedure for collecting the inmate population data.NotesDeclaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/orPUBLICation of this article.Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlejandra del Carmen Domínguez EspinosaAlejandra del Carmen Domínguez Espinosa obtained her PhD in social psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with honorable mention in 2003. She holds a full-time researcher position at the Iberoamerican University since 2004. Her research involves response styles, acculturation, and indigenous psychology measurement.Fons J. R. van de VijverFons J. R. van de Vijver holds a PhD from Tilburg University. He holds a chair in cross-cultural psychology at Tilburg University. He has published more than 350PUBLICations, mainly in the domain of cross-cultural psychology. His research involves bias and equivalence, psychological acculturation and multiculturalism, cognitive similarities, response styles, translations, and adaptations.