title: Delineating the construct network of the Personnel Reaction Blank: associations with externalizing tendencies and normal personality.
abstract: Integrity testing has long been utilized in personnel selection to screen for tendencies toward counterproductive workplace behaviors. The construct of externalizing from the psychopathology literature represents a coherent spectrum marked by disinhibitory traits and behaviors. The present study drew on a sample of male and female undergraduates to examine the construct network of the Personnel Reaction Blank (PRB; H. G. Gough, R. D. Arvey, & P. Bradley, 2004), a measure of integrity, in relation to externalizing as well as normal-range personality constructs assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ; A. Tellegen & N. G. Waller, 2008). Results revealed moderate to strong associations between several PRB scales and externalizing, which were largely accounted for by MPQ traits subsumed by Negative Emotionality and Constraint. After accounting for MPQ traits in the prediction of externalizing, a modest predictive increment was achieved when adding the PRB scales, particularly biographical indicators from the Prosocial Background subscale. The findings highlight externalizing as a focal criterion for scale development in the integrity testing literature and help delineate the construct network of the PRB within the domains of personality and psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University School of Medicine, 795 Willow Road (152-MPD), Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. bloni001@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Blonigen
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Patrick
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gasperi
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Steffen
authors.forename: Deniz S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Ones
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Arvey
authors.forename: Viviane de Oliveira
authors.initials: Vde O
authors.lastname: Baumgartl
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: do Nascimento
mesh_terms: D002605:Character; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult