| Abstract: | This study was made to determine if Gordon's Survey of Interpersonal Values might be subject to faking in a selection situation. A group of 50 College Extension Division students took the test first under a job set and then later under a vocational guidance set. The results from a correlational analysis, and an examination of individual score changes led to the following conclusions: (a) The test author's contention that this type of test (forced-choice format) is minimally susceptible to faking is open to some question in the case of the Survey of Interpersonal Values, (b) In this sample, 19% of the Ss changed their scores to a considerable extent under the 2 different administrative sets. This, suggests that forced-choice tests are not without hazard in some individual selection decisions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
