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2 Chater 6 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment Abstract When using sychological tests in ractice the detection of invalid rotocols is imortant. Within the realm of modern test theory, new aroaches have been develoed. The otential usefulness of these new aroaches is discussed and their relation with existing methods is exlored. An emirical examle shows that different aroaches are sensitive to different tyes of invalid resonse behavior and that the usefulness of different aroaches deends on the characteristics of the data. Finally, we sketch the ractical imlications of the use of different validity indicators in ersonality assessment. This chater has been submitted for ublication as: Egberink, I. J. L., & Meijer, R. R. (submitted). The use of different tyes of validity indicators in ersonality assessment.
3 94 Chater Introduction Psychological tests and inventories lay an imortant role in sychological ractice, contributing to many decisions that shae individual s ubringing, education, and careers. Test results assist in identifying talented individuals or in diagnosing individuals who need clinical treatment. Because tests affect eole s lives, they should be constructed according to the highest quality standards. The requirements with resect to the objectivity, reliability, and validity of sychological assessment are increasing and the adatation of strong sychometric methods is strongly encouraged in different fields of sychology and health research (e.g., Reeve et al., 2007). An imortant art of sychological assessment is ersonality assessment. Personality measures can redict a variety of imortant outcome variables, such as hysical and sychological health, social functioning, and job erformance (Ozer & Benet-Martínez, 2006, for an excellent review). In ersonality assessment often selfreort inventories are used to ma ersonality characteristics. The use of self-reort inventories is, however, not without roblems. Several authors discussed the lack of high quality items, the resence of many similar questions, and the existence of long inventories (sometimes consisting of items, e.g., Reise & Henson, 2003), so that all kinds of unintended effects occur like motivation roblems and fatigue. Low motivation may also be the result when ersonality measures are administered for basic research uroses. Persons sometimes show little interest in the accuracy of their data and unsystematic and inconsistent resonses may result. Another often encountered roblem that may invalidate the resonses to ersonality questions is faking. Research has shown that ersons are able to significantly distort their answers on a wide variety of ersonality measures. Persons who are instructed to resent themselves favorably on ersonality items, or to exaggerate clinical symtoms are able to do so, and can inflate or underestimate the urorted level of athology (e.g., Bagby, Nicholson, Bacchiochi, Ryder, & Bury, 2002). Also, in high-stakes testing settings, such as in ersonnel selection, it is often very clear which answers will lead to high scores in the referred direction, and invalid rotocols will result (e.g., Hough, Eaton, Dunnette, Kam, & McCloy, 1990). Although alternatives have been roosed to deal with these invalid rotocols such as the forced-choice item format, there are not many existing scales using these tyes of items. In this article, we concentrate on the detection of invalid rotocols. As a result of motivation roblems, faking, social desirability, and other tyes of resonse bias, the
4 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment 95 detection of invalid rotocols has always been a central concern in both the industrial and organizational ractice (e.g., ersonnel selection) as well as the clinical ractice (Ben-Porath & Waller, 1992; Tellegen, 1988). Clinicians diagnose and treat individual clients, and as a result they are interested in the validity of individual scale scores. Mean scores and correlations between variables do not alter as a result of a number of unmotivated test takers. However, a forensic or clinical sychologist trying to obtain a icture of a defendant, who is trying to exaggerate his mental illness, and as a result fakes answers to a ersonality questionnaire, might make serious errors in the diagnosis when relying on the resulting item scores. Therefore, clinicians often use different tyes of indicators that give information about the validity of individual test scores. Also in ersonnel selection, the detection of invalid rotocols (faking good) is imortant, since resonse distortion can reduce the utility of ersonality measures in job selection (e.g., Rosse, Stecher, Miller, & Levin, 1998; Winkelsecht, Lewis, & Thomas, 2006). In the literature a lethora of different tyes of validity indicators have been roosed, artly originating from different fields of sychology and based on different assumtions about the data. For examle, new methods have been develoed in the context of modern test theory that claim to be sensitive to different tyes of invalid rotocols (e.g., Meijer & Sijtsma, 2001; Egberink, Meijer, Veldkam, Schakel, & Smid, 2010). However, much research has focused on the develoment of validity indicators within a well-defined tradition. For examle, validity scales are tyically develoed within the ersonality assessment area, whereas so called ersonfit indices (to be discussed below) have been develoed within the sychometric research. Consequently, for a ractitioner it is unclear, which method can best be used to investigate secific tyes of invalid answering behavior. Therefore, in this article we (1) discuss different methods that have been roosed in different traditions of sychology to detect invalid resonse rotocols, and (2) exlore theoretically and by means of emirical data in a ersonnel selection and career develoment context which methods can best be used to detect different tyes of invalid rotocols. 6.2 Different Tyes of Resonse Validity Indicators Resonse validity indicators are measures designed to identify ersons who are not measured well by a articular scale or measurement instrument. Although different aroaches have been roosed, three different basic aroaches can be distinguished.
5 96 Chater 6 A first aroach is to use validity scales. A validity scale attemts to identify a secific form of resonse inconsistency. For examle, the variable resonse inconsistency (VRIN) scale consists of matched airs of items that have similar content. Each time the airs are marked in oosite directions, a oint is scored on the scale. The true resonse inconsistency (TRIN) scale consists of item airs that are semantically similar if keyed in oosite directions. This scale measures acquiescence, which is the tendency to agree or mark true regardless of content. TRIN and VRIN resonse inconsistency measures have been built into the Minnesota Multihasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008). Other examles of validity scales are social desirability scales, lie scales, and imression management scales. In ersonality assessment a tradition exists to detect invalid test scores using different tyes of validity scales such as the VRIN and the TRIN of the MMPI-2- RF. Research suggests that the utility of validity scales to detect faking bad or exaggerating symtoms is well suorted in clinical and forensic sychological ractice (for a review see, Nelson, Hoelzle, Sweet, Arbisi, & Demakis, 2010). For examle, Pinsoneault (2007) found that different MMPI validity scales had enough ower to be used in ractice. However in other fields, such as Industrial and Organizational sychology, the usefulness of these scales to detect faking good or social desirability is not undisuted. One of the roblems of validity scales is that they are known to be confounded with valid ersonality trait variance, and show a relationshi with other content scales (for a review, see, Uziel, 2010). For examle, Piedmont, McCrae, Riemann, and Angleitner (2000), and Tett and Christiansen (2007) discussed and reviewed the utility of different tyes of validity scales and concluded that validity scales were not very useful to detect invalid rotocols. A second aroach is the use of model-based resonse consistency indices or erson-fit statistics. In the sychometric and ersonality literature (e.g., Meijer & Sijtsma, 2001; Reise & Waller, 1993), it has been suggested that invalid test scores can be identified through studying the configuration of individual item scores by means of these erson-fit statistics that are roosed in the context of item resonse theory (IRT, Embretson & Reise, 2000). In IRT, a model is secified that describes the robability of endorsing a articular statement such as I am often down in the dums as a function of a latent trait score (in this case Negative Affectivity). On the basis of an IRT model observed and exected item scores can be comared and many unexected item scores alert the researcher that the total score may not adequately reflect the trait being measured. Besides the identification of oorly measured individuals, it has also been suggested that these statistics can be used to
6 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment 97 increase redictive validity by selecting oorly measured individuals and to assess the fit between an examinee s ersonality and a trait construct (i.e., as traitedness indicators, see Reise & Waller, 1993). A third aroach uses statistics to detect different tyes of resonse bias. These statistics vary in comlexity (see Zijlstra, 2009, for recent develoments). For examle, in attitude research extreme resonding is often defined as the erson s roortional use of the extreme resonse categories (e.g., corresonding to scores 1 or 5, on 5-oint Likert scale), which may vary between zero (if zero resonses are in the extreme resonse category) and one (when all resonses are in the extreme resonse categories). Or midoint resonding as the erson s roortional use of the middle category (i.e., corresonding to scores 3). A otential drawback of these statistics is that ersons with a trait score in the middle of the distribution have a high robability of obtaining many resonses in the middle category. Although, these three basic aroaches have been discussed in the literature and validity scales are often used in clinical ractice, erson-fit indices are less oular in ractical alications. Therefore, we discuss the usefulness of these indices in more detail. 6.3 The Usefulness of Person-fit Indices in Personality Measurement It has been suggested that erson-fit statistics can be of hel to identify different tyes of invalid test rotocols, such as random resonse behavior or social desirable resonse behavior (e.g., Meijer & Sijtsma, 2001). However, one should be careful in drawing these conclusions. For examle, the usefulness of erson-fit statistics to detect social desirability or exaggerated rotocols is unclear. Zickar and Drasgow (1996) found that a erson-fit aroach identified a higher number of faking ersons than when using a social desirability scale, whereas Ferrando and Chico (2001) showed that the validity scales (i.e., Lie scale and the Social Desirability scale) outerformed a erson-fit statistic. In erson-fit research the incongruity between a erson s estimated trait level and his or her attern of item resonses is investigated (e.g., a high scoring examinee missing an easy item). However, as Reise and Flannery (1996) noted most social desirable resonding... is either subtle (e.g., changing a Likert rating of 3 to 4 but not to 8) or consistent throughout the majority of the rotocol (e.g., elevating all ratings by a constant). Such resonding would seldom roduce discreancies large enough to detect (. 12).
7 98 Chater 6 As an alternative, methods may be used that are based on counting the strings of identical scores. These methods may be much more owerful to detect this tye of aberrant resonse behavior. IRT-based statistics have been roosed that are sensitive to strings of consecutive similar scores, such as strings of all 1 scores or all 4 scores (Meijer & Sijtsma, 2001). These statistics may indicate misfit as a result of faking or unmotivated resonse behavior Scale Proerties Several authors have discussed that items should be as discriminating as ossible (i.e., high item-test correlations) to increase the detection rate of erson-fit indices (e.g., Meijer, Molenaar, & Sijtsma, 1994). However, the selection of items with high discrimination will result in item sets that are very homogeneous in content, that is, items will be selected in which a similar question is reeated in slightly different way ( Often down in the dums and Often feels unhay ). This results in a trait variable that is highly reliable but extremely narrow in content (Egberink & Meijer, in ress; Reise & Flannery, 1996). Another challenge is that to identify erson-misfit one needs tests with items that are disersed across the latent trait range and tests that are relatively long (e.g., Ferrando & Chico, 2001). Although, long ersonality batteries exist, there is a trend in clinical and health sychology, medicine, and sychiatry for making decisions about atients using short questionnaires containing at most 15 items (Fliege, Becker, Walter, Bjorner, Kla, & Rose, 2005; Reise & Waller, 2009; Walter, Becker, Bjorner, Fliege, Kla, & Rose, 2007). These short tests might result in low ower for several erson-fit statistics Emhasis on Simulated Data In many erson-fit studies the ower of the different statistics has been investigated using simulated data. It is, however, unclear whether the results obtained in these studies generalize to different tyes of emirical data. For examle, Emons (2008) simulated item score atterns that mimic careless resonse behavior and item score attern that mimic the tendency to choose extreme resonse otions for simulated tests consisting of 12 and 24 items. For a test consisting of 12 items (comarable to the length of our scales, see below), he found higher detection rates for carelessness than for extreme resonse behavior. Furthermore, Emons (2008) found comarable detection rates for tests with low and high discriminating ower for carelessness (Emons, 2008, Table 2, for 12 items and careless resonse behavior on all items) but for extreme resonse behavior he found higher detection rates for lower
8 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment 99 discriminating items than for higher discriminating items. This latter observation was exlained through the observation that the higher the item discrimination, the higher the robability of resonses in the lowest category of difficult items, and likewise for the highest category of easy items (. 238). As a result, increasing the discriminating ower of an item will result in smaller differences of exected scores under the null model and the observed extreme resonse attern. This is an interesting observation and would imly that for ersonality questionnaires that measure a relatively broad construct erson-fit statistics may be useful. The results by Emons (2008) were obtained through simulated data and the critical values were determined in a simulated dataset of model-fitting resonse atterns. In sychological ractice and esecially in a ersonnel selection context, it is less straightforward to decide when a attern should be labeled as unexected. To be able to classify an item resonse attern as aberrant, one would like to have data containing no aberrant resonse atterns, that is, data consisting of ersons that filled out the questionnaire without resenting themselves in a favorable daylight. On the basis of this data critical values can be determined. However, in ractice we often have data where many ersons have the tendency to choose extreme resonses. This may drastically affect the ower results reorted in Emons (2008). 6.4 Emirical Evidence of the Usefulness of Validity Indices Most of the conducted studies on resonse distortion and faking used student samles and induced faking to assess whether ersons can fake, to assess the frequency of faking, and to assess the imact of faking on the sychometric roerties of a test (e.g., Ferrando & Chico, 2001; Pauls & Crost, 2004). There are only a few, but romising, studies using real data that alied both validity scales and erson-fit indices and comared their relative usefulness or tried to exlain inconsistent resonse behavior through sychological reasons with data from knowledgeable others and/or data from other sources. In one of these studies, Woods, Oltmanns, and Turkheimer (2008) investigated several covariates that may exlain misfitting resonse behavior on five subscales of the Schedule for Nonadative and Adative ersonality (SNAP; Clark, 1993). Misfitting resonse behavior was measured through the use of three SNAP validity scales (Rare Virtues, Deviance, and Variable Resonse Inconsistency) and the use of a erson-fit statistic. Furthermore, they used information from eers with resect to the extent to which each erson exhibited features of obsessive comulsive
9 100 Chater 6 ersonality disorder (imlying orderliness and erfection) or borderline ersonality disorder (imulsive and emotionally erratic and having unstable images of themselves and others). For five subscales of the SNAP they found misfitting resonse behavior. This behavior was artly related to severe athology, although they suggested that carelessness, hahazard resonding, or uncooerativeness may have been other otential causes of aberrant behavior. In another study aimed at the sychological causes of invalid testing rotocols, Meijer, Egberink, Emons, and Sijtsma (2008) conducted an extensive study of children who resonded to a oular measure of self-concet. They identified several children with inconsistent resonse behavior after reeated assessment. Additional information was obtained through observations during test administration and through interviews with their teachers to identify the causes of invalid test results. Meijer et al. (2008) concluded that for some children in the samle, item scores did not adequately reflect their trait level. Based on teachers interviews, this was found to be due most likely to a less develoed self-concet and/or roblems understanding the meaning of the questions. Thus, Meijer et al. (2008) showed that individuals who dislay oor erson fit are not necessarily merely generating random or other faulty resonses. Indeed, there may be interesting sychological reasons why an individual s resonse attern is inconsistent with a model. Finally, Conrad, Bezruczko, Chan, Riley, Diamond, and Dennis (2010) used erson-fit statistics to indentify atyical forms of suicide risk. They identified a grou of ersons with suicide symtoms but with low scores on symtoms of internalizing disorders, which is a major risk factor for suicide. As a result of low scores on internalizing disorders this grou may be not be identified when atterns are not checked for aberrant resonses. In conclusion, there is some evidence that different tyes of validity indices may be useful to detect invalid test behavior, but for a ractitioner it is unclear how different resonse distortion detection techniques are related to each other when alied to emirical data and how owerful different techniques are. Although one may argue that erson-fit statistics may not be sensitive to faking or social desirable resonding (imression management), it is an emirical question whether this is indeed the case. Imression management may only affect the answers to those items that are formulated in a socially desirable way, and may not affect the answers to the more neutral formulated items. To obtain more insight into the usefulness of different validity indicators in ractice, we conducted an emirical study. More secifically, the aim of this study was to comare the erformance of different
10 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment 101 validity indicators using emirical data obtained in a ersonnel develoment and ersonnel selection context. 6.5 Method Instruments Connector Big Five Personality Questionnaire (ConnP) The ConnP (Schakel, Smid & Jaganjac, 2007) is a comuter-based Big Five ersonality questionnaire alied to situations and behavior in the worklace. The questionnaire is used in both a selection context and a career develoment context as a global assessment of the Big Five factors. It consists of 72 items, distributed over five scales (Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Oenness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness). The items are scored on a five oint Likert scale. The answer most indicative for the trait being measured is scored 5 and the answer least indicative for the trait is scored 1. For this study we selected the Emotional Stability (15 items), Extraversion (15 items), Oenness (12 items), and Conscientiousness scale (15 items). The ConnP is based on a Dutch version of the Worklace Big Five Profile constructed by Howard and Howard (2001), which is based on the NEO-PI-R and adated to worklace situations. For the Dutch version, both concetual analyses and exloratory factor analyses showed the Big Five structure (Schakel, et al., 2007). Also, recent research showed that the sychometric quality of the scales was accetable (Egberink, et al., 2010) Particiants and Procedure Data were collected between Setember 2009 and March 2010 in cooeration with a Dutch human resources assessment firm whenever a ersonality measure was administered to a client. We distinguished two grous: (1) the ersonnel selection grou (alicants who aly for a job at an organization), and (2) the career develoment grou (ersons already working for the organization, and comleting the ConnP as art of their own ersonal career develoment). Because the interests are higher for ersons in the ersonnel selection grou comared to the develoment grou, we exect that ersons in the ersonnel selection grou have a higher tendency to resond in a social desirable way than in the develoment grou. Because the interests are lower for the career develoment grou, we exect that these ersons will have a higher robability of unexected resonses due to random
11 102 Chater 6 mistakes, for examle resulting from concentration loss or motivation loss, than ersons in the selection grou. The ersonnel selection grou consisted of 2217 ersons (M age = 31.1, SD = 8.65); 66.3% men and most ersons were White. 50.0% of the articiants had a university degree, 28.2% had higher education, and 20.8% secondary education; for 1.0% educational level was unknown. The career develoment grou consisted of 1488 ersons (M age = 39.8, SD = 9.28); 54.4% men and most ersons were White. 25.7% of the articiants had a university degree, 51.4% had higher education, and 21.4% secondary education; for 1.5% educational level was unknown. Because the two grous differed with resect to the variables gender, educational level, and age, we checked whether systematic differences in mean scores on the ersonality scales still exist after keeing the variables gender, educational level, and age constant 1. This was the case, which indicates that the differences in mean scores are likely caused by the emloyment status of the articiants. These results corresond with findings in the literature that there are differences in resonse behavior between alicants and incumbents (e.g., Robie, Zickar, & Schmit, 2001; Weekley, Ployhart, & Harold, 2004) Analyses Person Fit Given that the items in a questionnaire are ordered from most oular to least oular, a simle and owerful erson-fit statistic is the number of Guttman errors. For dichotomous items, the number of Guttman errors equals the number of 0 scores receding a 1 score in a score attern. Thus, the attern ( ) contains five Guttman errors. A drawback of this statistic, however, is that it is confounded with the total score (Meijer, 1994). For olytomous items Emons (2008), therefore, roosed a normed version of the number of Guttman errors: G GN G X max 1 In a 2 (male, female) x 3 (university, higher education, secondary education) x 3 (younger than 30 years of age, 31 through 38 years of age, older than 39 years of age) design, 18 indeendent samles t-tests were conducted. Fisher s combined robability test (e.g., Littell & Folks, 1971) was used to combine the -values of these 18 indeendent tests to obtain an overall -value to test whether systematic differences in mean scores between two grous still exist when the background variables were ket constant. The overall -value for each scale was smaller than.0005.
12 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment 103 In this statistic the number of Guttman errors ( G ) is weighted by its maximum value given the sum score (for details see Emons, 2008). G N ranges from 0 (i.e., no misfit) through 1 (i.e., maximum misfit); for erfect resonse atterns (i.e., all 1 scores or all 5 scores) the statistic is undefined. Although, Emons (2008) found in a simulation study that the ower of the simle number of Guttman errors was higher than the normed number of Guttman errors, we refer using the normed version because it is less confounded with the total score than the simle number of Guttman errors. Social Desirability Scale Within a large number of organizations, besides filling out the ConnP items, ersons also filled out ten self-image items. These items are used to assess a erson s tendency to resond in a social desirable way. The items are included in the ConnP and are administered together with the content scale items. The self-image items are scored on a five oint Likert scale where the answer most indicative for social desirability is scored 5 and the answer least indicative is scored 1. An examle of an item is Is not driven to climb higher u on the career ladder (reversed scored). A T-score of 55 (comarable with a total score of 37 or higher) indicates a high level of social desirable answering and a T-score of 65 or higher (comarable with a total score of 42 or higher) indicates extreme social desirable answering. The social desirability scale was filled out by 1570 ersons from the ersonnel selection grou, and by 363 ersons from the career develoment grou. Inconsistency Index Following the reasoning of the VRIN scale of the MMPI-2-RF (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008), we constructed an inconsistency index based on the ConnP items. Although the ConnP is used for assessment at the factor level, each factor is divided into facets consisting of three items. For each factor, we selected facets that consist of three items that are semantically similar. From the Emotional stability scale we selected the facet Intensity that determines how easily we get angry and the facet Rebound time that determines how much time we need to rebound from setbacks; from the Extraversion scale we selected the facet Taking charge that measures the degree to which we assume a leadershi role and the facet Directness that determines the degree to which we exress our oinions directly; from the Conscientiousness scale we selected the facet Perfectionism that measures striving for erfect results and the facet Concentration that measures concentrating on a articular task; and from the Oenness scale we selected the facet Imagination that
13 104 Chater 6 determines the number of new ideas and alications we think u. For the inconsistency index, we calculated for each of these seven facets the absolute differences between the resonses on the three items (i.e., the difference between the item resonses on item 1 and item 2, item 1 and 3, and item 2 and 3). The sum of these differences was taken as a measure for inconsistent resonse behavior. The higher the score, the more inconsistent the erson resonded. The minimum score equaled 0 and the maximum score equaled 56. An examle of three semantically similar items from Extraversion scale is Is reserved in exressing his/her oinion (reversed scored), Immediately says what he/she thinks of something, and Kees his/her criticism to him/herself (reversed scored) 2. Proortion of 5 Scores To assess whether ersons have a tendency to resond in the extreme resonse category, we calculated a simle statistic, namely the roortion of 5 scores. The higher the roortion, the more a erson resonded in the extreme resonse category. A large number of 5 scores may also indicate a valid score for ersons with a high trait score. However, we hyothesize that a large number of 5 scores across different scales may indicate social desirability, faking, and/or extreme resonse behavior. Power of the Validity Indicators To obtain an imression of the ower of the different methods we added 10% simulated resonse atterns to the data. We simulated two kinds of resonse distortion: (1) random resonse behavior where the realization of each score (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) had an equal robability of =.2, and (2) extreme resonse behavior or social desirable resonding where each resondent had an equal robability of =.5 to obtain a 4 score or a 5 score. We simulated these data for two content scales, the Conscientiousness scale and the Emotional Stability scale, and for the Social Desirability scale. We added the simulated data to the original data, calculated the different statistics and determined the roortion of simulated atterns that belonged to the 10% most aberrant score atterns. This rocedure was relicated 10 times. 2 Because of coyright restrictions we can only rovide one examle of a used facet to construct the inconsistency index.
14 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment Results Descritive Statistics Personality Scales Scale means, standard deviations, and Cronbach s α for the Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Oenness, and Conscientiousness scale for the two grous are reorted in Table 6.1. Cronbach s α is similar for each scale across the grous. In general, the differences in mean score are large between the ersonnel selection grou and the career develoment grou, resulting in a large effect size (i.e., d =.85) for the Conscientiousness scale, a medium to large effect size (i.e., d =.68) for the Emotional Stability scale and a small to medium effect size (i.e., d =.36) for the Extraversion scale. These results are in line with the literature. In their meta-analytic study, Birkeland, Manson, Kisamore, Brannick and Smith (2006) reorted effect sizes of d =.45 for Conscientiousness and d =.44 for Emotional Stability between the mean scores of alicants and non-alicants. Table 6.1 Scale characteristics. Scale α a M SD skewness kurtosis Emotional Stability selection career Extraversion selection career Oenness selection career Conscientiousness selection career Note. M = mean scale score; selection = ersonnel selection grou; career = career develoment grou. a = coefficient alha Descritive Statistics Resonse Validity Indicators Table 6.2 shows the mean scores on each resonse validity indicator for both grous. The career develoment grou has a higher mean number of G N for each
15 106 Chater 6 ersonality scale comared to the ersonnel selection grou. One exlanation may be that for the ersonnel selection grou 77%- 82% of the resonses on the four scales was in category 4 and 5, comared to 68%-73% for the career develoment grou. Thus, ersons in the ersonnel selection grou chose more often extreme answers. Because erson-fit statistics, likeg N, are less suited to detect extreme resonse atterns, the mean number of G N will also be lower in the ersonnel selection grou. Also note that the mean score on the social desirability scale was higher for the ersonnel selection grou comared to the career develoment grou (Cohen s d =.72) and that the mean score on the inconsistency index was higher for the career develoment grou comared to the ersonnel selection grou (Cohen s d =.55). This suorts the idea that the more extreme resonse atterns were resent in the ersonnel selection grou and that the more inconsistent atters were resent in the career develoment grou. Table 6.2 Mean scores on each resonse distortion detection technique for both grous. ersonnel selection career develoment M SD M SD G N _EMS G N _EXT G N _OPE G N _CON social desirability ro. #4s EMS ro. #5s EMS ro. #4s EXT ro. #5s EXT ro. #4s OPE ro. #5s OPE ro. #4s CON ro. #5s CON inconsistency Note. G = normed Guttman errors; EMS = Emotional Stability; EXT = Extraversion; N OPE = Oenness; CON = Conscientiousness; ro. = roortion.
16 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment 107 We also calculated the roortion of ersons with a high score on both the ersonality scales and the social desirability scale. Scoring high on both the ersonality scales and the resonse distortion scale indicates resonse distortion. In the ersonnel selection grou 45.8% of the ersons with a high score on three ersonality scales also had a high score on the social desirability scale, in the career develoment grou this was 55.6%. However, the roortion of ersons with a high score on both the four ersonality scales and the social desirability scale equaled 84.2% for the ersonnel selection grou and 33.3% for the career develoment. Thus, in the selection context a high score on the four subscales is strong evidence for resonse distortion Comarison of Validity Indicators Figure 6.1 dislays the number of resonse atterns that were classified as invalid in the ersonnel selection grou (left anel) and in the career develoment grou (right anel) using the different resonse validity indicators and combinations of these indicators. Based on the social desirability and inconsistency scores, a attern was classified as invalid when it belonged to the 10% most extreme scores. Based on G N and the roortion of number of 5 scores for each of the four ersonality scales, a attern was classified as invalid when the resonse atterns of a erson belonged to the 10% most extreme scores for at least three out of four content Figure 6.1: Venn diagram showing the overla of the number of resonse atterns in the ersonnel selection grou (left anel) and the career develoment grou (right anel) classified as invalid using different validity indicators. Note. G N = normed Guttman errors with regard to the involved scale; SD = social desirability; inconsist = inconsistency index; ro #5s = roortion of numbers of 5 scores.
17 108 Chater 6 scales. Figure 6.1 shows that there is not much overla between the classifications of invalid score atterns using the different statistics. Thus, the different methods detect different tyes of invalid resonse atterns. The largest overla was between G N and the inconsistency index, and the social desirability scale and the roortion of #5 scores Power of the Different Validity Indicators in Real Emirical Data Table 6.3 dislays the average detection rates of the different validity indicators for the 10 random resonse datasets and the 10 extreme resonse datasets for the Conscientiousness scale and the Emotional Stability scale for both grous. The indicators that are sensitive to inconsistent resonse behavior (i.e., G N and the inconsistency index) have the highest detection rate in the random resonse data and the statistics that are sensitive to extreme resonse behavior or social desirable resonding (i.e., the social desirability score and the roortion of 5 scores) have the highest detection rates for the extreme resonse data. Table 6.3 Mean detection rates of the different validity indicators for 10 random resonse datasets and 10 extreme resonse datasets for Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability for both grous. random resonse data (CON) extreme resonse data (CON) external alication grou GN SD incons #5s (.03) (.00) (.02) (.00).02 (.01).44 (.02).00 (.00).03 (.01) career develoment grou GN SD incons #5s (.05) (.01) (.04) (.00).00 (.01).53 (.04).00 (.00).08 (.04) random resonse data (EMS) extreme resonse data (EMS).68 (.01).05 (.02).00 (.00).44 (.02).45 (.12).00 (.00).00 (.00).10 (.02).66 (.03).03 (.02).00 (.01).53 (.04).36 (.03).00 (.00).00 (.00).15 (.03) Note. G = normed Guttman errors with regard to the involved scale; SD = social desirability; N inconsis = inconsistency index; #5s = roortion of numbers of 5 scores; EXT = Extraversion; EMS = Emotional Stability; standard deviations are dislayed between brackets.
18 The Use of Different Tyes of Validity Indicators in Personality Assessment Discussion Although a articular questionnaire can be a good measure of a sychological construct for a grou of ersons, it may be a oor measure of the construct for a articular individual (Ben-Porath & Waller, 1992). Therefore, information about the consistency of answering behavior on questionnaires can be of great hel to ractitioners in different fields of sychology. How should we use validity indicators in ractice? Our results showed that different validity indicators detect different tyes of distorted resonse atterns. The social desirability scale score, the roortion of number 5 scores, and the combination of high scale scores and a high score on the social desirability scale can be of hel to detect exaggerated resonses. Person-fit statistics like GN are esecially useful to detect unlikely score atterns. Furthermore, ractitioners should realize that the ower of erson-fit statistics deend on the secific characteristics of the emirical data analyzed. When, such as in our case, there are many extreme scores, detection of faking through erson-fit indices is useless How Can We Use Person-fit Statistics in Practice? Quality measures like reliability and validity indices are defined at the grou level and do not rovide much information about the quality of individual measurement. Although different tyes of validity scales are often used in (esecially clinical) ractice to assess the quality of individual test scores, IRT-based erson-fit statistics are seldom used in ractice. We think that information from inconsistent resonse atterns combined with other (statistical) information can be of great hel to identify susicious test scores of individuals and grous of individuals to check measurement quality. Routinely calculating erson-fit statistics and evaluating them at the grou level can be useful to check for scoring and other administration errors. For examle, to check for hand-scoring errors by sychologists Simons, Goddard, and Patton (2002) investigated hand-scoring errors in atitude, clinical, and ersonality measures and identified serious error rates for both sychologist and client scorers across all tests investigated. Also the use of comuter-based tests and the automatic scoring of these tests may lead to serious errors as a result of misgrading. In the educational testing field this has led to serious roblems and legal rocedures (see Strauss, 2010, for an overview). Checking the likelihood of item score atterns can alert
19 110 Chater 6 ractitioners and testing comanies to these kinds of scoring and administration errors. On an individual level, checking for invalid rotocols results in immediate feedback. In clinical ractice validity scales are often used, but also using erson-fit statistics may reveal interesting idiosyncrasies (e.g., Conrad et al., 2010). In the context of comuter-based diagnostic testing, calculating and reorting erson-fit statistics is very easy. Testing may even be adated and lengthened when it is clear that a atient roduces very inconsistent resonse atterns. However, as we showed in our emirical analysis, erson-fit statistics like the number of Guttman errors are sensitive to articular tyes of idiosyncratic answering behavior and the use of different sources of statistical and substantive information is necessary before we can conclude that individual test scores can not be trusted.
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