Psychology Ph.D. Dissertations
Title
Faking is a FACT: Examining the Susceptibility of Intermediate Items to Misrepresentation
Date of Award
2017
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department
Psychology/Industrial-Organizational
First Advisor
Michael Zickar (Advisor)
Second Advisor
Steve Jex (Committee Member)
Third Advisor
William O'Brien (Committee Member)
Fourth Advisor
Kate Magsamen-Conrad (Other)
Abstract
As personality assessment continues to become more common in business settings, the need to understand and address faking and misrepresentation of personality in selection processes becomes extremely important. The recent advances in ideal point item response theory offer a new and more nuanced way to create personality inventories and to investigate the psychology of faking. The present study uses a within-subjects experiment to investigate how intermediate items, specifically those of the FACT taxonomy, behave under honest and faked response conditions. The effects of faking on item characteristics and respondent scores are assessed, and a technique for identifying faked responses is demonstrated.
Recommended Citation
Foster, Garett C., "Faking is a FACT: Examining the Susceptibility of Intermediate Items to Misrepresentation" (2017). Psychology Ph.D. Dissertations. 194.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/psychology_diss/194