Self-Presentation Strategies on the Neo-Five Factor Inventory: Implications for Detecting Faking

Scandell, Donald J.; Wlazelek, Brian

doi:10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3f.1115

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“…Random responding can be detected by visually inspecting the answer sheet and noting consecutive item responses (specific rules are explained by Costa & McCrae, 1992b, p. 6). Furnham (1997); Paulhus, Bruce, and Trapnell (1995); and Scandell and Wlazelek (1996) examined participants' ability to fake their personality scores using the NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992b), a shorter form of the NEO-PI-R. However, the test has no other built-in validity scales designed to detect response biases such as overreporting or underreporting.…”

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Effects of Response Sets on NEO-PI-R Scores and Their Relations to External Criteria

Caldwell‐Andrews

Baer²,

Berry³

2000

Journal of Personality Assessment

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Validity scales indicate the extent to which the results of a self-report inventory are a valid indicator of the test taker's psychological functioning. Validity scales generally are designed to detect the common response sets of positive impression management (underreporting, or faking good), negative impression management (overreporting, or faking bad), and random responding. The revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992b) is a popular personality assessment tool based on the 5-factor model of personality and is used in a variety of settings. The NEO-PI-R does not include objective validity scales to screen for positive or negative impression management. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of recently proposed validity scales for detecting these response sets on the NEO-PI-R (Schinka, Kinder, & Kremer, 1997) and to examine the effects of positive and negative impression management on correlations between the NEO-PI-R and external criteria (the Interpersonal Adjective Scale-Revised-B5 [Wiggins & Trapnell, 1997] and the NEO-PI-R Form R). The validity scales discriminated with reasonable accuracy between standard responding and the 2 response sets. Additionally, most correlations between the NEO-PI-R and external criteria were significantly lower when participants were dissimulating than when responding to standard instructions. It appears that response sets of positive and negative impression management may pose a significant threat to the external validity of the NEO-PI-R and that validity scales for their detection might be a useful addition to the inventory.

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Effects of Response Sets on NEO-PI-R Scores and Their Relations to External Criteria

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Berry³

2000

Journal of Personality Assessment

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“…As noted previously, the custody litigants in the present sample are no exception. A modal self-favorable profile was derived by combing the outcomes of 11 studies with 793 participants, resulting in the following n-weighted domain means: Neuroticism ¼ 40.2T, Extraversion ¼ 58.0T, Openness to Experience ¼ 55.1T, Agreeableness ¼ 59.1T, and Conscientiousness ¼ 59.6T (Ballenger, Caldwell-Andrews, & Baer, 2001;Bradshaw, 1997;Caldwell-Andrews, 2001;Caldwell-Andrews et al, 2000;Furnham, 1997;Ross, Bailley, & Millis, 1997;Rosse, Stecher, Miller, & Levin, 1998;Scandel & Wlazelek, 1996;Schinka et al, 1997;Topping & O'Gorman, 1997). Any custody litigant's NEO profile can be statistically compared to this modal profile, and the degree of similarity can be used to suggest the degree to which a custody litigant's NEO PI-R=PI-3 profile is more or less self-favorable.…”

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Using the NEO Personality Inventory in Child Custody Evaluations: A Practitioner's Perspective

Langer¹

2011

Journal of Child Custody

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Since the 1980s the Five-Factor Model (FFM) has become increasingly prominent as a systematic and comprehensive description of normal personality. Since the 1990s investigators using the FFM have shown that individual differences in normal personality are associated with parenting behavior and child outcomes. Yet custody evaluators are not using FFM measures in their work. The NEO PI-R=PI-3 is recommended as a reliable FFM measure with widespread use in both research and applied settings. The greatest challenge evaluators face with the NEO PI-R=PI-3 is weighing the impact of custody litigant impression management. Support is available via child custody litigant norms presented here, validity scales from other sources, and the correlation of a litigant's score profile with the modal self-favorable profile calculated from research into impression management on the NEO PI-R.

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“…Costa and McCrae (1992) obtained construct validity support through factor analysis and reported that internal consistencies for the domain scales were satisfactory (range 5 .86-.95). Test-retest reliability for the domain scales were found to range from .86 to .91 (Scandell & Wlazelek, 1996). McCrae and Costa (2004) used the NEO-FFI with adolescent and older adults, and demonstrated that NEO-FFI scores did not vary as a function of participant age.…”

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Client personality characteristics predict satisfaction with cognitive behavior therapy

2007

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Ratings of treatment satisfaction are a means for cognitive behavior therapy clients to provide their unique personal perspective on their therapy experience. Treatment satisfaction is a variable of growing importance as a predictor of outcome for various medical and psychological treatments including treatments for chronic pain (D. C. Turk et al., 2003). Our goal was to determine whether satisfaction with cognitive behavior therapy sessions varied as a function of patient personality characteristics in a sample of 43 older adults (average age=72.3 years, SD=8.0) participating in a psychosocial pain management therapy program with a cognitive behavioral orientation. Participants completed the NEO Five Factor Inventory (P. T. Costa, Jr. & R. R. McCrae, 1992) prior to the commencement of treatment and a psychometrically valid questionnaire, assessing satisfaction with psychological therapy, after each therapy session. The core personality dimensions of neuroticism, openness, and agreeableness were predictive of aspects of satisfaction with therapy. These findings have the potential of being useful to clinicians concerned with the prediction of response to therapy.

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Self-Presentation Strategies on the Neo-Five Factor Inventory: Implications for Detecting Faking

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Effects of Response Sets on NEO-PI-R Scores and Their Relations to External Criteria

Effects of Response Sets on NEO-PI-R Scores and Their Relations to External Criteria

Using the NEO Personality Inventory in Child Custody Evaluations: A Practitioner's Perspective

Client personality characteristics predict satisfaction with cognitive behavior therapy

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