Detection of faking on the Personality Inventory for Children

Evaluated the effectiveness of various techniques for the identification of faking on the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC). Seventy undergraduate students were asked to complete two PICs on their child using various permutations of the options: Faking bad, faking good, and legitimate. The results were cross-validated against a clinical sample in which there was reason to believe that the informant had completed the PIC in a faked bad, faked good, or legitimate fashion. The results indicate that a clinician cannot be absolutely certain whether a PIC profile is valid. However, given our current level of understanding, Adjustment (ADJ) greater than or equal to 84 T for the identification of faking bad and either Social Desirability (SD) greater than or equal to 54 T or K greater than or equal to 59 T for the identification of faking good are recommended.