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Peer reviewedHelmes, Edward; Holden, Ronald R. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1986
The Basic Personality Inventory (BPI) was completed by 180 undergraduates who received faking instructions, 182 normal adults, and 404 psychiatric inpatients. The BPI was scored for measures of stylistic responding and for its 12 scales. Reports results of instructions to fake, incidence of stylistic responding, and detection of faking using three…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Higher Education, Personality Assessment
Peer reviewedHolden, Ronald R.; Jackson, Douglas N. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1981
Examined the usefulness of subtle personality scales in which test respondents are provided with knowledge and motivation to distort self-presentation. Results indicated that subtle scales were not superior when faking occurred. Scores under these faking conditions were less valid, failing to support the utility of disguised approaches. (Author)
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Predictive Validity, Psychopathology
Peer reviewedHolden, Ronald R.; Jackson, Douglas N. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Presented a distinction between concepts of face validity and item subtlety. Trait categories were differentially accessible to individual judges. Higher criterion validities were associated with less subtle and more face-valid items. Results support a rational approach to test construction and emphasize the use of relevant test item content.…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Evaluators, Factor Structure
Download full textHolden, Ronald R. – 1993
Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the use of response latencies in psychological assessment. Some research has suggested that response times associated with answering personality and integrity questionnaires may be useful in differentiating among honest responders and individuals who are lying. Using an experimental paradigm…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Foreign Countries, Job Applicants, Lying
Peer reviewedKroner, Daryl G.; Holden, Ronald R.; Reddon, John R. – Assessment, 1997
The validity of the Basic Personality Inventory (BPI) (D. Jackson, 1989) was studied with 101 adult male prisoners. Results are summarized in relation to the higher order factors of emotional adjustment, antisocial orientation, cognitive functioning, and social self-perception. The BPI scales measure psychopathology and adjustment in a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Antisocial Behavior, Cognitive Processes
Holden, Ronald R.; Fekken, G. Cynthia – 1987
The processing of incoming psychological information along the network, or schemata, of self-knowledge was studied to determine the convergent and discriminant validity of the patterns of schemata-specific response latencies. Fifty-three female and 52 male university students completed the Basic Personality Inventory (BPI). BPI scales assess…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Testing, Data Collection, Discriminant Analysis
