Applicants faking good: Evidence of item bias in the NEO PI-R

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1545-1558

  Griffin, Barbara ^a   Hesketh, Beryl ^a   Grayson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness; Faking; Openness to Experience; Personality measures; Personnel selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842606494     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.06.004     Document Type: Article

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