Detection Of Faking on the Comrey Personality Scales

The ability of subjects to fake responses on personality tests under various experimental conditions has been established in several studies, including those involving the Comrey Personality Scales (CPS). Evidence is presented in this study regarding the potential of several techniques for detecting faked CPS test records, along with a further demonstration of the extent to which the CPS can be faked. Five groups of test records were used: four were from two sets of university student subjects, with one test record completed under normal conditions and the other under instructions to deliberately "fake good." The final group of CPS records was from a set of police officer candidates. Several possible faking predictor scores were related to a continuously measured index of faking based on differences between "faked" and "normal" records and also to a dichotomous criterion of faking. Results of a correlational analysis show that the best predictor of faking on the Comrey Personality Scales is a total summary score obtained by adding up all ten CPS scale scores.