Faking on Amoral dimension of the HEDONICA personality inventory was incited
by the context simulation instructions: fake good (S2), fake bad (S3) and be
honest (S1). Simultaneously, under instruction S1, the scores of respondents
were measured on the Amoral facets of Self-concept scale (GSC), the Balanced
social desirability scale (BIDR) and the cognitive tests of the fluid (IT2,
ALF and RM) and the crystallized (AL4, vocabulary and GSN) intelligence,
supposed (Morality), or known from the literature, as possible faking
determinants. The score differences on Amoral dimension facets were
calculated for S2 and for S3 situations using as a baseline the score in S1
situation. The score differences between S3 and S1 situations (abbreviated as
FB) were found to be larger than the ones between S2 and S1 situations
(abbreviated as FG). This result indicated that a) Amoral is susceptible to
faking, and b) in S3, rather than in S2 situation, respondents displayed
higher tendency of faking, or in other words, they incline to make worse
rather than good presentation of themselves. The Projection facet of Amoral
was most sensitive toward faking. These differences are found to be
correlated with the Morality dimension of Self-concept scale and the fluid
intelligence factor, but not with the dimensions of Social desirability scale
in both situation for almost all faking scores on Amoral facets. Only
Brutality was not related to the Morality, and Viciousness was not related to
the Gf. This indicated that the dimension Morality of the Self-concept scale
is far more correlated with the Amoral dimension of the HEDONICA personality
scale than with the Social desirability scale.