scholarly journals Detecting faking-good response style in personality questionnaires with four choice alternatives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merylin Monaro ◽  
Cristina Mazza ◽  
Marco Colasanti ◽  
Stefano Ferracuti ◽  
Graziella Orrù ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Mixed Design ◽  
Faking Good ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Computer Mouse ◽  
Positive Impression Management ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

AbstractDeliberate attempts to portray oneself in an unrealistic manner are commonly encountered in the administration of personality questionnaires. The main aim of the present study was to explore whether mouse tracking temporal indicators and machine learning models could improve the detection of subjects implementing a faking-good response style when answering personality inventories with four choice alternatives, with and without time pressure. A total of 120 volunteers were randomly assigned to one of four experimental groups and asked to respond to the Virtuous Responding (VR) validity scale of the PPI-R and the Positive Impression Management (PIM) validity scale of the PAI via a computer mouse. A mixed design was implemented, and predictive models were calculated. The results showed that, on the PIM scale, faking-good participants were significantly slower in responding than honest respondents. Relative to VR items, PIM items are shorter in length and feature no negations. Accordingly, the PIM scale was found to be more sensitive in distinguishing between honest and faking-good respondents, demonstrating high classification accuracy (80–83%).

How Demographic Faultlines and Impression Management Behaviors Influence Group Affective Tone

2021 ◽  
pp. 104649642199391
Author(s):  
Nai-Wen Chi ◽  
Wei-Chi Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Group Identification ◽  
Social Categorization ◽  
Affective Tone ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Impression Management ◽  
Reduced Group ◽  
Group Affective Tone ◽  
Management Behaviors

Drawing on the social categorization perspective, we theorized that team demographic faultlines increase negative group affective tone (NGAT) through reduced group identification, while team member positive impression management behaviors enhance positive group affective tone (PGAT) via enhanced group identification. Data were collected from 523 members of 101 newly formed student teams. Consistent with our hypotheses, team demographic faultlines were positively predicted NGAT via reduced group identification, while team self-promotion and ingratiation behaviors were positively associated with PGAT through group identification. Importantly, team self-promotion and ingratiation behaviors also mitigated the social categorization processes triggered by team demographic faultlines.

scholarly journals Use of mouse-tracking software to detect faking-good behavior on personality questionnaires: an explorative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Mazza ◽  
Merylin Monaro ◽  
Franco Burla ◽  
Marco Colasanti ◽  
Graziella Orrù ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mouse Tracking ◽  
Faking Good ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

Emotionality, Repression-Sensitization, and Maladjustment

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (474) ◽  
pp. 399-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Personality Variable ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Personality Questionnaires ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Factor Dimension

Much of the current research on personality questionnaires has concerned itself with response style or bias related to “social desirability”, in which the first factor dimension of the M.M.P.I. is implicated (Edwards and Heathers, 1962). Stable personality differences have been detected between those who are placed high and low on this dimension as measured by a number of M.M.P.I. scales (e.g. Pt (Psychasthenia), K (Defensiveness), Taylor's MAS (Manifest Anxiety), Welsh's A (Anxiety) Scale—see Christie and Lindauer, 1963). However, a lack of integration has resulted from a failure to recognize that the same personality variable is being measured by scales of “social desirability”, “repression-sensitization”, or the tendency to deny or admit symptoms, and as well as “social desirability”, this factor has been identified as “general maladjustment or ego weakness” (Kassebaum, Couch and Slater, 1959), and “neuroticism” (Eysenck, 1962).

Convergence of Self-Reports and Informant Reports on the Personality Assessment Screener

Assessment ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 999-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon E. Kelley ◽  
John F. Edens ◽  
Leslie C. Morey
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Dyadic Relationship ◽  
Informant Report ◽  
Positive Impression Management ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Psychological Difficulties ◽  
Internalizing Distress ◽  
Report Measure

The present study is the first to investigate the Personality Assessment Screener, a brief self-report measure of risk for emotional and behavioral dysfunction, in relation to the informant report version of this instrument, the Personality Assessment Screener–Other. Among a sample of undergraduate roommate dyads ( N = 174), self-report and informant report total scores on the Personality Assessment Screener/Personality Assessment Screener–Other moderately converged ( r = 0.45), with generally greater agreement between perspectives observed for externalizing behaviors compared with internalizing distress. In addition, selves tended to report more psychological difficulties relative to informant ratings ( d = 0.45) with an average absolute discrepancy between sources of 6.31 ( SD = 4.96) out of a possible range of 66. Discrepancies between self-report and informant report were significantly associated with characteristics of the dyadic relationship (e.g., length of acquaintanceship) as well as the severity of self-reported psychological difficulties and positive impression management.

Effects of time pressure and precision demands during computer mouse work on muscle oxygenation and position sense

2005 ◽  
Vol 94 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Heiden ◽  
E. Lyskov ◽  
M. Djupsjöbacka ◽  
F. Hellström ◽  
A. G. Crenshaw
Keyword(s):  
Time Pressure ◽  
Position Sense ◽  
Muscle Oxygenation ◽  
Computer Mouse

Influence of time pressure and verbal provocation on physiological and psychological reactions during work with a computer mouse

2002 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahlström J. ◽  
Hagberg M. ◽  
Johnson P. ◽  
Svensson J. ◽  
Rempel D.
Keyword(s):  
Time Pressure ◽  
Psychological Reactions ◽  
Computer Mouse

Comparison of self-ratings with informant-ratings of pre-morbid personality on two personality rating scales

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dodwell
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
The Self ◽  
Previous Evidence ◽  
Informant Ratings ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

SynopsisIn a study of pre-morbid personality in 56 head-injured subjects, subjects' self-ratings of pre-morbid personality were compared with informants' ratings of the subjects' pre-morbid personality on two personality questionnaires (the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and the Marke-Nyman Temperament Scale (MNTS)). Correlations between self-ratings and informantratings were positive and significant for all three MNTS and for EPI Extraversion and Lie scales, but not for EPI Neuroticism, where the lack of subject-informant correlation was attributed to contamination of the self-rating of the trait measure by current abnormalities of mental state. Further analyses supported previous evidence that the MNTS ‘Validity’ scale may predict the development of psychiatric symptoms.

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