Forced-choice assessments of personality for selection: Evaluating issues of normative assessment and faking resistance

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Heggestad, ED; Morrison, M; Reeve, CL; McCloy, RA
• 署名单位: Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins; Purdue University System; Purdue University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.1.9
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 9-24
• 关键词: personality; measurement; response distortion

摘要

Recent research suggests multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) response formats may provide resistance to purposeful response distortion on personality assessments. It remains unclear, however. whether these formats provide normative trait information required for selection contexts. The current research evaluated score correspondences between an MFC format measure and 2 Likert-type measures in honest and instructed-faking conditions. In honest response conditions, scores from the MFC measure appeared valid indicators of normative trait standing. Under faking conditions, the MFC measure showed less score inflation than the Likert measure at the group level of analysis. In the individual-level analyses, however, the MFC measure was as affected by faking as was the Likert measure. Results suggest the MFC format is not a viable method to control faking.