On the Utility of Indirect Methods for Detecting Faking.

ABSTRACT: Indirect indices for faking detection in questionnaires make use of a respondent's deviant or unlikely response pattern over the course of the questionnaire to identify them as a faker. Compared with established direct faking indices (i.e., lying and social desirability scales), indirect indices have at least two advantages: First, they cannot be detected by the test taker. Second, their usage does not require changes to the questionnaire. In the last decades, several such indirect indices have been proposed. However, at present, the researcher's choice between different indirect faking detection indices is guided by relatively little information, especially if conceptually different indices are to be used together. Thus, we examined and compared how well indices of a representative select

SUBMITTER: Goldammer P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418592 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature