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  • Personality psychology
  • Psychometrics

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  • The Big Five Inventory - 2 (BFI-2) is widely used for assessing personality traits.
  • Lack of a specific measure for response distortion in the BFI-2 can compromise data integrity.
  • Careless or random responding can negatively impact research findings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a scale for detecting inconsistent responding within the BFI-2.
  • To identify careless responders and improve the quality of personality assessment data.
  • To introduce the Detection of Response Inconsistency Procedure (DRIP) for the BFI-2.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the DRIP scale by identifying highly correlated item pairs within the BFI-2.
  • Calculated the DRIP score by summing the absolute differences of these item pairs.
  • Validated the scale using two undergraduate samples and a community sample.

Main Results:

  • The DRIP scale successfully differentiated between random and genuine data.
  • DRIP scores showed expected correlations with personality domains and other inconsistency scales.
  • The DRIP incrementally predicted random data beyond existing measures.

Conclusions:

  • The DRIP is a promising tool for identifying careless responders on the BFI-2.
  • The scale aids in enhancing the validity of personality assessment data.
  • Recommendations for DRIP cut scores are provided to balance sensitivity and specificity.