The Effects of Providing a Warning About the Lie Scale in a Personality Inventory

Nias, D.K.B.

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8279.1972.tb00725.x

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“…All malingering indexes, and 17 of the 18 psychopathology scales where malingering was successfully induced, showed an impact of warning, with one scale demonstrating partial support for a warning effect. This finding is consistent with studies supporting the utility of warning to reduce malingering on neuropsychological measures (Erdal, 2004;Gunstad & Suhr, 2001;Johnson & Lesniak-Karpiak, 1997;Suhr & Gunstad, 2000) and faking good on personality inventories (Braun & Faro, 1968;Nias, 1972). The use of a theoretically informed warning method and a bona fide sanction in this study may help explain why previous research has sometimes failed to find a warning effect (Johnson et al, 1998;Slick et al, 1994;Suhr et al, 2004;Sullivan et al, 2001;Wong et al, 1998).…”

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Deterring malingered psychopathology: The effect of warning simulating malingerers

King

Sullivan

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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The utility of a warning to deter malingering on measures of personality and psychopathology was examined. Sixty-seven first year psychology students were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: unwarned malingerers, warned malingerers, and controls. Participants in the two malingering groups were given a financial incentive to simulate believable psychological impairment. Warned malingerers received an additional warning that the tests could detect malingering and that detection would result in loss of course credit. Controls received standardized test instructions. It was hypothesized that the malingering incentive would be sufficient to induce malingering, but that a deterrence theory warning would have a subsequent deterrent effect. Between-groups analyses indicated that the warning used in this study significantly altered test performance on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and revised Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90-R). Warned malingerers scored significantly lower (faked less) than unwarned malingerers on the majority of the psychopathology scales and frequently approximated control group performances. These results support the effectiveness of a warning to complement existing malingering detection methods.

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Section: The Utility Of Warning To Deter Malingeringsupporting

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Deterring malingered psychopathology: The effect of warning simulating malingerers

King

Sullivan

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…They, therefore, suggested that as impulsive children take less time t o decide about self-evaluation statements, it is possible that their selfdescriptions will be less accurate, a result which they noted '' has ,i,mplications for investigators who use self-rating information in personality research. Therefore, in view of the present lack of evidence for the validity of the JEPI (Bennett and Youngman, 1973) further studies are now under way which compare children's self-reports with performance measures, under conditions designed to elicit more accurate selfreporting as suggested by Nias (1972).…”

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Impulsivity: Self‐report and Performance Measure

Cairns

Harbison

1975

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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Summary. A sample of 98 boys, aged 11–12 years, completed the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory and were individually administered Kagan's Matching Familiar Figures test of reflection/impulsivity. Four groups were formed on the basis of median splits on two indices of impulsivity and a two‐way analysis of variance was carried out against Eysenck's personality dimensions and an additional impulsivity factor derived from the same inventory. The fact that no main effects or interactions were obtained for any self‐report measure was discussed with reference to other failures to validate the JEPI.

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“…When applicants are warned that intentionally distorted responses will be detected and consequences exist for distorting one's responses, distortion is minimal or less than would have occurred had no warning been given (Haymaker & Erwin, 1980;Lautenschlager & Atwater, 1986;Nias, 1972;Schrader & Osburn, 1977;Trent, Atwater, & Abrahams, 1986). Griffith, et al (1997) report data demonstrating that when such a warning is eliminated, distortion increases.…”

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The Millennium for Personality Psychology: New Horizons or Good Old Daze

Hough¹

1998

Applied Psychology

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On passe en revue les recherches qui s'attaquent a trois questions importantes pour la psychologie appliquke: les taxinomies, la distorsion intentionnelle et la mesure. Les recherches centrees sur les concepts ont dkbouche sur des progres significatifs dans ce domaine. Le modkle en cinq facteurs est nkanmoins critique parce qu'il confond les concepts, est dependant d'une mCthode et incomplet. La comparaison de mCta-analyses generalisant la validite de concepts de personnalite tires de diffCrents modbles taxinomiques montre que le Big Five masque des relations predicteur-critere importantes. L'accomplissement, par exemple, un concept confondu avec d'autres dans le modele en cinq facteurs, presente, avec les critkres, un ensemble de relations hCtCrogenes avec 1'Extraversion et le Sens des ResponsabilitCs, les deux concepts du modkle en cinq facteurs avec lesquels il est souvent confondu. Bref. les resultats d'une recherche dependent de la structure de la taxinomie utilisee. O n s'interesse aussi aux travaux sur la distorsion intentionnelle (biais volontaire aux inventaires d'auto-evaluation). Les candidats a un poste ne distordent pas leurs rkponses autant que dans les travaux de falsification systematique, et la validit6 prkdicteur-critere des autodescriptions modirement biaisees est a peu pres la m&me que celle des reponses d e bonne foi. Les procCdures de mesure qui ne reposent pas sur l'auto-evaluation sont presentees comme etant des solutions de rechange.Research on three issues important to psychologists in applied settings is reviewed: taxonomies, intentional distortion, and measurement mode. Construct-oriented research has enabled the field to make significant advances. Nonetheless, the five-factor model is criticised because it confounds constructs, is method-bound, and is not comprehensive. A comparison of meta-analytic research summarising the criterion-related validity of personality constructs of different taxonomic models reveals that the Five Factor Model obscures important predictor-criterion relationships. Achievement, for example, a construct that is confounded with other constructs in the Five Factor Model, shows a pattern of relationships with criteria that differs from Extroversion or Conscientiousness-the two Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr. Leaetta M. Hough. The

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The Effects of Providing a Warning About the Lie Scale in a Personality Inventory

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Deterring malingered psychopathology: The effect of warning simulating malingerers

Deterring malingered psychopathology: The effect of warning simulating malingerers

Impulsivity: Self‐report and Performance Measure

The Millennium for Personality Psychology: New Horizons or Good Old Daze

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