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Is it enough to be willing to win or do you have to be smart? The relationship between competitive worldviews, cognitive abilities, and applicant faking in personality tests
Author(s) -
Schilling Michael,
Sparfeldt Jörn R.,
Becker Nicolas,
Engel Marie,
Levacher Julie,
Sebastian Tilman F. P.,
Schäfer Juliane,
Schwabe Sarah,
König Cornelius J.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/ijsa.12296
Subject(s) - psychology , moderation , personality , context (archaeology) , social psychology , cognition , need for cognition , competitive advantage , marketing , paleontology , neuroscience , business , biology
Recent research has highlighted competitive worldviews as a key predictor of faking—the intentional distortion of answers by candidates in the selection context. According to theoretical assumptions, applicants’ abilities, and especially their cognitive abilities, should influence whether faking motivation, triggered by competitive worldviews, can be turned into successful faking behavior. Therefore, we examined the influence of competitive worldviews on faking in personality tests and investigated a possible moderation of this relationship by cognitive abilities in three independent high school and university student samples ( N 1 = 133, N 2 = 137, N 3 = 268). Our data showed neither an influence of the two variables nor of their interaction on faking behavior. We discuss possible reasons for these findings and give suggestions for further research.