The validity of personality questionnaires.

Historical Overview of Conceptualizations of Socially Desirable Responding in Personality Questionnaires

“…Naime, još je Allport (1937) primijetio da se primjenom upitnika ličnosti redovito dobivaju precijenjeni opisi lič-nosti, odnosno opisi koji su pretjerano poželjni. Ellis (1946) u svojem pregledu istraživanja valjanosti upitnika ličnosti upozorava na to da ispitanici lako mogu falsificirati svoje odgovore te da to često i čine. Opisivanje u socijalno poželjnom smjeru pogotovo je izraženo u situacijama primjene upitnika koje imaju važan ishod za zaposlenika (Dilchert, Ones, Viswesvaran i Deller, 2006).…”

What Does Research Say about Self-Evaluation?

“…Ellis (7) has pOinted out that most personality self-rating devices have not been shown to have much validity in terms of correlation with external criteria. He states such disadvantages as the occurrence of a general over-estimation, or self-halo, effect where most people take the tests, and cites a long list of studies where the test results seemed quite unrelated to other ratings of personal-SOCial competence.…”

The Significance of the No-Count on the Bernreuter Personality Inventory

“…T h e scoring weight distribution on the BPI keys further suggests that in order to obtain the trend necessary for prestige profiles (negatioe scores on the B1-N and F1-C scales, positioe ones on the B2-S and B4-D scales), it is more important to have a handsome number of No's than it matters to which questions No responses are given? 2 The B3-I scale, known to correlate highly with the B1-N scale (2), has been 3 The mean score weights for Y r s and No answers compare as follows: omitted to enhance clarity of the profile. No answers are necessary on the BPI to obtain a "favorable" profile.…”