Predictors of faking behavior on personality inventories in selection: Do indicators of the ability and motivation to fake predict faking?

May 28, 2021 Abstract This study investigated whether faking behavior on a personality inventory can be predicted by two indicators of the ability to fake (cognitive ability and the ability to identify criteria; ATIC) and two indicators of the motivation to fake...

Psychometric Evaluation of a Big Five Personality State Scale for Intensive Longitudinal Studies

May 6, 2021 Assessment, Ahead of Print. Despite enthusiasm for using intensive longitudinal designs to measure day-to-day manifestations of personality underlying differences between people, the validity of personality state scales has yet to be established. In this...

The Big Five Inventory–2 in China: A Comprehensive Psychometric Evaluation in Four Diverse Samples

April 23, 2021 Assessment, Ahead of Print. The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) has received wide recognition since its publication because it strikes a good balance between content coverage and brevity. The current study translated the BFI-2 into Chinese, evaluated its...

Why Do People Agree With Both Regular and Reversed Items? A Logical Response Perspective

March 30, 2021 Assessment, Ahead of Print. The current research challenges the received view that misresponses to reversed items are the result of participants’ irrational behavior. On the contrary, for participants at a midpoint level of a trait, it is perfectly...