Using the multidimensional nominal response model to model faking in questionnaire data: The importance of item desirability characteristics.

ABSTRACT: Faking in self-report personality questionnaires describes a deliberate response distortion aimed at presenting oneself in an overly favorable manner. Unless the influence of faking on item responses is taken into account, faking can harm multiple psychometric properties of a test. In the present article, we account for faking using an extension of the multidimensional nominal response model (MNRM), which is an item response theory (IRT) model that offers a flexible framework for modeling different kinds of response biases. Particularly, we investigated under which circumstances the MNRM can adequately adjust substantive trait scores and latent correlations for the influence of faking and examined the role of variation in the way item content is related to social desirability (i.e., item d

SUBMITTER: Seitz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11525249 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature