Publication: Modelling the Effect of Combining Fakable and Non-Fakable Measures on Selectee Performance
All || By Area || By Year| Title | Modelling the Effect of Combining Fakable and Non-Fakable Measures on Selectee Performance | Authors/Editors* | Komar, S., Brown, D. J., Risavy, S. D., & Robie, C. |
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| Where published* | Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association |
| How published* | Other |
| Year* | 2008 |
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| Keywords | monte-carlo simulation selection personality |
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| Abstract |
Faking research has demonstrated that the intentional distortion of responses on non-cognitive measures, such as personality tests, will have a negative impact on the criterion-related validity of these measures. Because these measures are seldom used alone in applied settings, the practical impact of faking may be attenuated once combined with other measures, such as cognitive ability, which are not susceptible to faking. The present study sought to investigate this possibility by modeling a number of selection scenarios in which performance is predicted using a measure of conscientiousness, which has been shown to be susceptible to faking, in concert with a measure of cognitive ability. Each measure was used either alone, as a unit-weighted composite, or as an initial hurdle before selection on the other measure. Results indicated that the impact of faking conscientiousness on selectee performance is largely dependent on how the conscientiousness measure is combined with cognitive ability. For some scenarios, faking conscientiousness had little impact on the performance of the group ultimately selected, while in others faking resulted in a level of performance that was below that achieved through selection using cognitive ability alone. |
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