The Construct Validity of Personality Questionnaires in Fake-good Situations

Bešlić, Irena. (2009). The Construct Validity of Personality Questionnaires in Fake-good Situations. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Psychology. [mentor Jerneić, Željko].

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to test whether response distortion affects the construct validity of personality facets in situations of induced egoistic/moralistic bias. According to Wiggins and Trapnell (1996) and Paulhus and John (1998), in situations where participants distort their answers, personality facets should divide themselves in two factors: egoistic and moralistic bias. In order to test these assumptions, we compared situations of honest responding to situations of induced egoistic and moralistic bias. Our study was conducted on depedent sample of participants in three different situations: all respondents first filled in honest responses in personality questionnaire (N=328) and then part of them had to present themselves like an ideal candidate for a student scholarship (N=163) and part of them had to present themselves like an ideal candidate for a student journey (N=161). We conducted factor analysis and extracted five factors in the situation of honest responding (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness), in the situation of induced egoistic bias three factors (egoistic bias, moralistic bias, interest description) and in the situation of induced moralistic bias four factors (egoistic bias, moralistic bias, interest description, selfcontrol bias). These results partially confirmed the proposed model.

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