| Abstract: | Sixty adults in outpatient psychotherapy completed the NEO Personality Inventory–Revised (NEO PI–R, P. T. Costa & R. R. McCrae, 1992a). Half were instructed to fake good and half were given standard instructions. All completed the Interpersonal Adjective Scale–Revised, Big Five (J. S. Wiggins & P. D. Trapnell, 1997) under standard instructions, and their therapists completed the observer rating form of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. A comparison group of 30 students completed the NEO PI–R under standard instructions. Standard and fake-good participants obtained significantly different NEO PI–R domain scores. Correlations between the NEO PI–R and criterion measures were significantly lower for faking than for standard patients. Validity scales for the NEO PI–R (J. A. Schinka, B. N. Kinder, & T. Kremer, 1997) were moderately accurate in discriminating faking from standard patients, but were only marginally accurate in discriminating faking patients from students. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
