强制选择响应格式可以减少假装社会厌恶的性格特征吗?
Amanda L Y Valone1, Adam W Meade2
1Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, LLC, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Journal of personality assessment
|March 19, 2024
概括
研究人员测试了强制选择格式,以防止伪造人格特征,特别是社会厌恶的性格特征. 与预期相反,这种方法并没有减少响应操纵,即使使用最佳实践.
科学领域:
- 心理测量 心理测量
- 人格心理学 人格心理学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
背景情况:
- 自我报告人格评估是标准的,但容易受到响应操纵 (伪造) 的影响.
- 现有的关于减少伪造的研究主要针对规范性特征 (例如,五因素模型),而不是社会厌恶性特征.
- 由于受访者对假冒的动机增加,社会厌恶的特征对准确的测量提出了独特的挑战.
研究的目的:
- 调查强制选择响应格式在减少假装社会厌恶性人格特征方面的有效性.
- 开发和验证新的多维强制选择和单一刺激措施,用于社会厌恶的特征.
- 评估已建立的最佳实践是否有助于减轻受访者在人格评估中伪造的行为.
主要方法:
- 开发新的多维强制选择和单一刺激措施,用于社会厌恶的性格特征.
- 强制选择格式的应用,以评估社会厌恶的特征.
- 指示参与者作为"理想的求职者"来模拟假冒行为.
主要成果:
- 当被指示伪造时,参与者成功地改变了他们的分数,这表明他们容易受到响应操纵的影响.
- 与假设相反,强迫选择格式并没有显著减少假装行为.
- 强制选择格式在防止伪造方面的有效性没有得到支持,即使遵守最佳实践.
结论:
- 强迫选择答案格式并不是防止受访者在人格评估中伪造的绝对方法,包括对社会厌恶的特征.
- 需要进一步的研究来开发更强大的策略来检测和减轻人格测量中的伪造.
- 对社会厌恶特征的测量需要仔细考虑响应格式,以确保有效性并减少潜在的偏见.
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