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A Comparative Study of Integrity Tests: The Criterion‐Related Validity of Personality‐Based and Overt Measures of Integrity
Author(s) -
Woolley Ross M.,
Hakstian A. Ralph
Publication year - 1993
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/j.1468-2389.1993.tb00081.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , conscientiousness , big five personality traits , construct validity , structural equation modeling , scale (ratio) , facet (psychology) , reliability (semiconductor) , personality assessment inventory , alternative five model of personality , social psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , statistics , big five personality traits and culture , mathematics , extraversion and introversion , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
In the field of personality assessment, one construct or set of constructs that is emerging as important for both publishers and users of psychological testing has been labelled variously as integrity, conscientiousness, reliability, delinquency, or responsibility. The associated organizational outcome has been broadly labelled counterproductivity. In the present study, four integrity scales, selected scales from mainstream personality inventories, derived molar integrity factors and optimal scale linear combinations were correlated with admissions of counterproductivity. It was found that (a) all four integrity scales were significantly correlated with the counterproductivity criterion, (b) individual personality scales from normal personality inventories, as well as unit‐weighted linear combinations of them, were approximately as highly correlated with counterproductivity as were the integrity tests, and (c) personality traits conceptually distinct from the domain of integrity were also related to counterproductivity.