摘要：background The aim of the study was to identify the patterns of two types of faking the results of a self-report study – faking good and faking bad – and to determine their relationships with the images obtained as a result of completing a questionnaire in accordance with the standard instructions and therefore regarded as subjectively true.We investigated fak_ing resulting from a short-term attitude stemming from the presence of a particular theme in the context of the items of a questionnaire assessing psychopathic personality.participants and procedure The results were collected in a population of participants (N = 173) of full legal age and without a criminal record.To examine the research problem,we used cluster analysis and Pearson’s r correlation coefficient.Calculations were performed in the R environment.The division of partici?pants into homogeneous groups was based on the criterion of optimal breadth of the Silhouette index in accordance with the Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) method.results Five separate patterns of faking good and three patterns of faking bad during self-report assessment were distin?guished.Intergroup differences in traits and behaviors characteristic of psychopathy in the groups distinguished based on the pattern of faking bad were not found.conclusions It can be concluded that the levels of traits and behavior patterns defining psychopathic personality are related to a particular profile produced as a result of faking good.The present study does not show the existence of a relationship between the level of psychopathy and any par?ticular strategy of presenting oneself in a worse light.
关键词：psychopathy;questionnaire-based study of personality;faking good;faking bad
