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Personality Traits and Social Desirability in the Selection Situation
Ana PROROKOVIĆ
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Ana SLIŠKOVIĆ
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Ivona BUMBAK
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Sažetak
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.
Ključne riječi
social desirability; personality questionnaires; EPQ; locus of control; proactivity
Hrčak ID:
31154
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2008.
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