Egoistic and moralistic bias in real-life inventory responses
- 作者：Laura Honkaniemi ; Taru Feldt
- 关键词：Faking ; Egoistic ; Moralistic ; PRF ; Personnel assessment ; Socially desirable responding
- 刊名：Personality and Individual Differences
- 出版年：2008
- 期刊代码：64_01918869
- 类别：psy
- 出版时间：September 2008
- 卷：45
- 期：4
- 页码：307-311
- 文件大小：181 K
摘要
Response-faking tendencies can be divided into moralistic and egoistic bias according to the contents of the issue faked (Paulhus & John, 1998). Our hypothesis was that in a work-related selection context faking would occur on the egoistic sub-scales, as these are related to competence and talent, which are issues relevant in selection. To minimize the amount of conscious faking, half of 466 real-life applicants were warned about the presence of a socially desirable responding sub-scale in the Personality Research Form (PRF). Half of the respondents (control group) received standard instructions. Of all the PRF sub-scales, only the ones measuring either egoistic or moralistic traits were studied. The hypothesis was not supported: the warning affected not only some of the egoistic sub-scales, but also some of the moralistic sub-scales.