Speer Andrew B, Wegmeyer Lauren J, Tenbrink Andrew P, Delacruz Angie Y, Christiansen Neil D, Salim Rouan M
Department of Psychology, Wayne State University.
Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University.
J Appl Psychol. 2023 Nov;108(11):1812-1833. doi: 10.1037/apl0001099. Epub 2023 Jun 15.
Forced-choice (FC) personality assessments have shown potential in mitigating the effects of faking. Yet despite increased attention and usage, there exist gaps in understanding the psychometric properties of FC assessments, and particularly when compared to traditional single-stimulus (SS) measures. The present study conducted a series of meta-analyses comparing the psychometric properties of FC and SS assessments after placing them on an equal playing field-by restricting to only studies that examined matched assessments of each format, and thus, avoiding the extraneous confound of using comparisons from different contexts (Sackett, 2021). Matched FC and SS assessments were compared in terms of criterion-related validity and susceptibility to faking in terms of mean shifts and validity attenuation. Additionally, the correlation between FC and SS scores was examined to help establish construct validity evidence. Results showed that matched FC and SS scores exhibit strong correlations with one another (ρ = .69), though correlations weakened when the FC measure was faked (ρ = .59) versus when both measures were taken honestly (ρ = .73). Average scores increased from honest to faked samples for both FC ( = .41) and SS scores ( = .75), though the effect was more pronounced for SS measures and with larger effects for context-desirable traits (FC = .61, SS = .99). Criterion-related validity was similar between matched FC and SS measures overall. However, when considering validity in faking contexts, FC scores exhibited greater validity than SS measures. Thus, although FC measures are not completely immune to faking, they exhibit meaningful benefits over SS measures in contexts of faking. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
迫选式（FC）人格评估在减轻伪装影响方面已显示出潜力。然而，尽管受到越来越多的关注和使用，但在理解FC评估的心理测量特性方面仍存在差距，特别是与传统的单刺激（SS）测量方法相比时。本研究进行了一系列元分析，在将FC和SS评估置于平等竞争环境后，比较它们的心理测量特性——只纳入那些检验了每种形式匹配评估的研究，从而避免使用来自不同背景比较的额外混杂因素（萨克特，2021）。从与标准相关的效度以及在均值偏移和效度衰减方面对伪装的易感性方面，对匹配的FC和SS评估进行了比较。此外，还检验了FC和SS分数之间的相关性，以帮助建立构念效度证据。结果表明，匹配的FC和SS分数彼此之间呈现出强相关性（ρ = .69），不过当FC测量被伪装时，相关性会减弱（ρ = .59），而当两种测量都是诚实进行时，相关性更强（ρ = .73）。对于FC（ =.41）和SS分数（ =.75），平均分数从诚实样本到伪装样本都有所增加，尽管这种效应在SS测量中更为明显，对于情境期望特质的影响更大（FC =.61，SS =.99）。总体而言，匹配的FC和SS测量在与标准相关的效度方面相似。然而，在考虑伪装情境下的效度时，FC分数比SS测量表现出更高的效度。因此，尽管FC测量并非完全不受伪装影响，但在伪装情境中，它们相对于SS测量表现出显著的优势。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》（c）2023美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
