期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2008
卷号：17
期号：6 (98)
页码：1157-1177
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：Susceptibility to (di)simulation of different personality measures has been investigated in many studies, but most of them used simulation of different conditions by giving different types of instructions for filling out personality questionnaires in an occupational setting. Consequently, there is a small amount of studies that have data from a real personnel selection situation, while the tendency of personality measures used in personnel selection is in an increase in Croatia. Therefore, the general aim of this study was to contribute to the knowledge of the amount of social desirability in job-applicants’ personality traits assessments. In that way we tried to contribute to the assessment of criterion validity of personality questionnaires in personnel selection. The study included 1176 job-applicants. The results showed significant effects of the situation (selection vs. non-selection) on the assessment of relevant personality traits. As it was expected, job- -applicants showed lower levels of neuroticism and psychoticism and higher levels of extraversion, internality and proactivity, in comparison to the control group. Significant determinants of job- -applicants' self-assessments were social desirability, cognitive abilities and education level. Job-applicants with higher levels of cognitive abilities and high level of education had lower results on the lie-scale, which does not exclude giving socially desirable answers on other scales of relevant psychological constructs.
关键词：social desirability; personality questionnaires; EPQ; locus of control; proactivity
