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Drasgow, Fritz Drasgow, Fritz Carpenter, Nichelle C. Chang, Hua-Hua Newman, Daniel A. Rounds, James Cao, Mengyang 2016-11-10T18:43:02Z 2016-11-10T18:43:02Z 2018-11-11T10:15:45Z 2016-07-15 2016-08 Forced-choice (FC) is a popular format for developing noncognitive individual differences measures, where individuals are forced to choose one or multiple statements out of several options. FC measures have been proposed as a valuable approach to reduce score inflation in high-stakes assessments, but their effectiveness has not yet been examined in a meta-analysis. In my dissertation, I conducted two studies to examine the fakability of forced-choice personality and vocational interest measures. In the first study, I conducted a meta-analysis of studies comparing FC personality measures between low-stakes and high-stakes situations. Results suggested that the overall score inflation effect size for FC personality measures is 0.05, which is much lower than the effect size for single-statement measures. The score inflation effect size was also found to vary across FC scale characteristics, study design factors, and personality facets. Specifically, a faking resistant FC scale should be constructed in a multidimensional PICK format, with statements balanced in social desirability and responses scored in a normative approach. Personality facets of high relevance to the target were found to exhibit larger inflation than facets of low relevance to the target job. In the second study, I conducted an induced faking study to examine the fakability of vocational interest measures and whether or not the FC format reduced the faking effect. With a sample of 1,559 respondents, I found that respondents consistently inflated the interest domain that matched the target job, and that the inflation led to a decreased level of criterion-related validity of interest-job fit. Multidimensional FC scales exhibited a smaller inflation effect on non-matched domains, but not on matched domains, than single-statement scales. However, the FC format did not reduce the level of criterion-related validity attenuation found in single-statement measures. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01 The student, Mengyang Cao, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-14 at 11:29. The student, Mengyang Cao, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-07-14 at 11:36. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-07-15 at 11:00. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9939 on 2016-11-10 at 12:25:26 Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:43:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 CAO-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf: 1617750 bytes, checksum: 6de8762fc34ccdc4495bb433b9cd82ef (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: 3342abaa595e21ea7ae1466f1623b7a4 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4555 bytes, checksum: 5feb429d2940d4437dcf8a66b99b055d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-07-15 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95487 Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:43:22Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 95487 on 2018-11-11T10:15:45Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/93064 en Copyright 2016 Mengyang Cao forced-choice personality vocational interest faking Examining the fakability of forced-choice individual differences measures text text Psychology Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.