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Detecting faked responses on the Comrey Personality Scales (CPS) is possible. A total summary score, combining all ten CPS scale scores, best predicts when individuals deliberately attempt to "fake good" on personality assessments.

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Area of Science:

Psychological Assessment
Personality Measurement
Forensic Psychology

Background:

The capacity for individuals to manipulate responses on personality inventories, such as the Comrey Personality Scales (CPS), is a recognized issue in psychological research.
Existing research confirms that test-takers can alter their answers under specific experimental conditions, impacting the validity of personality assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the efficacy of various methods for identifying deceptive responses within Comrey Personality Scales (CPS) data.
To further investigate the degree to which individuals can intentionally distort their scores on the CPS, specifically by 'faking good'.

Main Methods:

Collected five distinct sets of Comrey Personality Scales (CPS) records, including university students and police officer candidates.
Four sets involved participants completing the CPS under both standard conditions and with instructions to 'fake good'.
Correlational analyses were performed, relating potential faking predictor scores to both continuous and dichotomous measures of response distortion.

Main Results:

A total summary score, derived from the summation of all ten individual CPS scale scores, emerged as the most effective predictor of faking.
This aggregate score demonstrated a strong correlation with indices designed to quantify the extent of deliberate response manipulation.

Conclusions:

The study provides robust evidence for techniques capable of detecting dissimulated responses on the Comrey Personality Scales (CPS).
The aggregated score of all ten CPS scales is identified as a key indicator for identifying individuals attempting to present themselves in an overly favorable light.