New perspectives on faking in personality assessment / Matthias Ziegler, Carolyn MacCann, Richard D. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziegler, Matthias, 1978-

Contributor:

MacCann, Carolyn.

Roberts, Richard D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personality assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contributors consider what it means to "fake" a personality assessment, why and how people try to obtain particular scores on personality tests, and what types of tests people can successfully manipulate. The authors present and discuss the usefulness of a range of traditional and cutting-edge methods for detecting and controlling the practice of faking.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; PART ONE: General Background; 1. Faking: Knowns, Unknowns, and Points of Contention; PART TWO: Do People Fake and Does It Matter? The Existence of Faking and Its Impact on Personality Assessments; 2 .People Fake Only When They Need to Fake; 3. The Rules of Evidence and the Prevalence of Applicant Faking; 4. Questioning Old Assumptions: Faking and the Personality-Performance Relationship; 5. Faking Does Distort Self-Report Personality Assessment

PART THREE: Can We Tell If People Fake? The Detection and Correction of Response Distortion6. A Conceptual Representation of Faking: Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart; 7. Innovative Item Response Process and Bayesian Faking Detection Methods: More Questions Than Answers; 8. Searching for Unicorns: Item Response Theory-Based Solutions to the Faking Problem; 9. Methods for Correcting for Faking; 10. Overclaiming on Personality Questionnaires; 11. The Detection of Faking Through Word Use; PART FOUR: Can We Stop People from Faking? Preventive Strategies

12. Application of Preventive Strategies13. Social Desirability in Personality Assessment: Outline of a Model to Explain Individual Differences; 14. Constructing Fake-Resistant Personality Tests Using Item Response Theory: High-Stakes Personality Testing with Multidimensional Pairwise Preferences; 15. Is Faking Inevitable? Person-Level Strategies for Reducing Faking; PART FIVE: Is Faking a Consequential Issue Outside a Job Selection Context? Current Applications and Future Directions in Clinical and Educational Settings; 16. Plaintiffs Who Malinger: Impact of Litigation on Fake Testimony

17. Intentional and Unintentional Faking in EducationPART SIX: Conclusions; 18. Faking in Personality Assessment: Reflections and Recommendations; 19. Faking in Personality Assessments: Where Do We Stand?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-990921-0

9786613423672

1-283-42367-7

OCLC:

922970455