Measuring Faking in the Employment Interview: Development and Validation of an Interview Faking Behavior Scale

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1638-1656

  Levashina, Julia ^a   Campion, Michael A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY KOKOMO   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

base rates of faking in job interviews; faking during structured interviews; Interview Faking Behavior scale; taxonomy of faking behavior

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECUMBENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

DECEPTION; EMPLOYMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36348977560     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.6.1638     Document Type: Article

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