title: Overt honesty measures predicting admissions: an index of validity or reliability.
abstract: Honesty questionnaires are often validated against a paper-and-pencil criterion in which respondents are asked to admit to past incidents of dishonesty. However, substantial overlap in the methods of assessment and in item content between predictor and criterion suggest that it is not validity that is being assessed, but rather a form of reliability. In this study, the relations between two overt measures of honesty (the Phase II Profile and the Workplace Productivity Questionnaire) and an admissions criterion were evaluated. The results suggest that the strong correlations between the Phase II Profile and the admissions criterion (r = -.67) and between scores on the Workplace Productivity Questionnaire and the admissions criterion (r = -.62) may be largely due to overlapping item content.
authors.affiliation: Ledership Department, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario.
authors.forename: Adelheid A M
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Nicol
authors.forename: Sampo V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Paunonen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007586:Job Application; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010560:Personnel Selection; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014342:Truth Disclosure