Criterion validity is maintained when items are evaluatively neutralized: Evidence from a full scale FFM-inventory
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Summary, in English
The original version and an evaluatively neutralized version (with items rephrased to reduce popularity) of a personality inventory were compared. The results revealed A) Similar criterion validity across three different sets of self-rated behaviors, B) Stronger relations to the rated social desirability of criteria for the original version, and C) Less correlation between factors for the neutralized version (replicating Bäckström, Björklund & Larsson, 2009). We take the results to indicate that evaluative neutralization is a viable technique for reducing social desirability in self-ratings. Implications for test construction are discussed.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
620-633
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Journal of Personality
Volym
28
Issue
6
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Psychology
Nyckelord
- Big Five
- personality
- self-ratings
- social desirability
- criterion validity
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1099-0984