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Faking is a FACT: Examining the Susceptibility of Intermediate Items to Misrepresentation

Foster, Garett C

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
As personality assessment continues to become more common in business settings, the need to understand and address faking and misrepresentation of personality in selection processes becomes extremely important. The recent advances in ideal point item response theory offer a new and more nuanced way to create personality inventories and to investigate the psychology of faking. The present study uses a within-subjects experiment to investigate how intermediate items, specifically those of the FACT taxonomy, behave under honest and faked response conditions. The effects of faking on item characteristics and respondent scores are assessed, and a technique for identifying faked responses is demonstrated.
Michael Zickar, PhD (Advisor)
Steve Jex, PhD (Committee Member)
William O'Brien, PhD (Committee Member)
Kate Magsamen-Conrad, PhD (Other)

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  • Foster, G. C. (2017). Faking is a FACT: Examining the Susceptibility of Intermediate Items to Misrepresentation [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1487256025031404

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Foster, Garett. Faking is a FACT: Examining the Susceptibility of Intermediate Items to Misrepresentation. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1487256025031404.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Foster, Garett. "Faking is a FACT: Examining the Susceptibility of Intermediate Items to Misrepresentation." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1487256025031404

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)