TY - JOUR
T1 - Faking on self-report emotional intelligence and personality tests
T2 - Effects of faking opportunity, cognitive ability, and job type
AU - Tett, Robert P.
AU - Freund, Kurt A.
AU - Christiansen, Neil D.
AU - Fox, Kevin E.
AU - Coaster, John
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - We assessed the combined effects of cognitive ability, opportunity to fake, and trait job-relevance on faking self-report emotional intelligence and personality tests by having 150 undergraduates complete such tests honestly and then so as to appear ideal for one of three jobs: nurse practitioner, marketing manager, and computer programmer. Faking, as expected, was greater (a) in higher-g participants, (b) in those scoring lower under honest conditions (with greater opportunity to fake), and (c) on job-relevant traits. Predicted interactions accounted for additional unique variance in faking. Combining all three factors yielded a " perfect storm" standardized difference of around 2, more than double the overall .83 estimate. Implications for the study of faking are discussed.
AB - We assessed the combined effects of cognitive ability, opportunity to fake, and trait job-relevance on faking self-report emotional intelligence and personality tests by having 150 undergraduates complete such tests honestly and then so as to appear ideal for one of three jobs: nurse practitioner, marketing manager, and computer programmer. Faking, as expected, was greater (a) in higher-g participants, (b) in those scoring lower under honest conditions (with greater opportunity to fake), and (c) on job-relevant traits. Predicted interactions accounted for additional unique variance in faking. Combining all three factors yielded a " perfect storm" standardized difference of around 2, more than double the overall .83 estimate. Implications for the study of faking are discussed.
KW - Cognitive ability
KW - Faking
KW - Personality testing
KW - Trait specificity
KW - Trait-emotional intelligence
KW - Trait-job-relevance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=81955165145&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.017
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2011.10.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81955165145
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 52
SP - 195
EP - 201
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 2
ER -