The usefulness of the NEO PI-R positive presentation management scale for detecting response distortion in employment contexts

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 639-650

  Reid Seiser, H L ^a   Fritzsche, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment selection; Employment testing; Personality assessment; Socieal desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042407799     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00168-9     Document Type: Article

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