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Cross‐Cultural Integrity Testing as a Marker of Regional Corruption Rates
Author(s) -
Fine Saul
Publication year - 2010
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.1468-2389.2010.00508.x
Subject(s) - hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , psychology , collectivism , variance (accounting) , language change , uncertainty avoidance , social psychology , dimension (graph theory) , common method variance , test (biology) , cultural diversity , cross cultural , index (typography) , political science , individualism , economics , accounting , law , art , paleontology , literature , mathematics , biology , pure mathematics , world wide web , computer science
Despite the extensive research on integrity testing in personnel psychology, very little cross‐cultural evidence is currently available. The present study compares mean integrity test scores across 27 countries, based on data collected from 60,952 job applicants, and examines the relationship between these scores and a comparative index of country‐level corruption as a broad measure of cross‐cultural validity. G. S. Hofstede's cultural dimension indices are then used to explain these findings. The results indicate significant variance between cross‐cultural integrity test scores overall, and that this variance is significantly related to country levels of corruption ( r =−.48), as well as Hofstede's power distance and collectivism dimensions, as hypothesized. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.