Contextual cues as a source of response bias in personality questionnaires: The case of the NEO‐FFI

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 655-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Krahé ◽  
Jana Becker ◽  
Jana Zöllter
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Stimulus Person ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Cognitive Response ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

Two experiments demonstrated the susceptibility of a standard personality inventory to response bias elicited by contextual cues. In Study 1, participants who completed the NEO‐FFI in a simulated application for a job stereotypically associated with extraversion (a journalist) scored higher on the extraversion scale than those who completed it under standard instructions. The increase occurred in response to the job label ‘journalist’ and in response to a job description stressing extraversion‐related qualities. In Study 2, a priming procedure was used to elicit cognitive response distortions. Participants exposed to an extraverted stimulus person scored higher on extraversion than participants completing the NEO‐FFI under standard instructions. No effects were found on the remaining scales of the NEO‐FFI. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Response Bias Scale for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger O. Gervais ◽  
Yossef S. Ben-Porath ◽  
Dustin B. Wygant ◽  
Paul Green
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory

A STUDY OF A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Stones
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Thought Disorder ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Construct System

An empirically oriented study of a pathological liar is described. It was hypothesized that such an individual might be characterized by a construct system that is atypically loose over a wide range of conventional, socially relevant constructs. Evidence consistent with this hypothesis was obtained from the Thought Disorder Grid (TDG) and by a marked response bias on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI). However, a conventional Repertory Grid (administered twice) yielded scores to indicate that construing was tight over a limited range of idiosyncratic, socially relevant constructs. It was concluded that the individual's understanding of his social environment was generally unreliable and this might be a factor to account for the lying behavior.

Second-Order Factor Structure Common to Five Personality Questionnaires

1986 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Schuerger ◽  
L. C. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Vector Space ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Edwards Personal Preference Schedule ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

The argument is presented that many commercial personality questionnaires occupy a similar common vector space. A data-set was obtained of scores for 204 persons on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, the California Personality Inventory, the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule, the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the Adjective Check List. Quasifactor scores were generated from each inventory, based on the results of earlier work, as estimates of five broad variables hypothesized to define the common vector space across instruments. Factor analysis of the correlations among the resultant 23 variables was largely confirmatory of the hypothesized common vector space.

The Effect of Response Bias on the Personality Inventory for DSM–5 (PID–5)

2015 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. McGee Ng ◽  
R. Michael Bagby ◽  
Brandee E. Goodwin ◽  
Danielle Burchett ◽  
Martin Sellbom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Dsm 5
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