Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: CLARK, ANDREW PETER. The Investigation of an Integrity-Based Implicit Association Test. (Under the direction of Adam Meade).The purpose of this study is the development and validation of an implicit measure for employee integrity.To assess implicit integrity, this investigation makes use of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) method developed by Greenwald, McGhee, and Schwartz (1998).The IAT procedure utilized in this investigation is an adaptation of one implemented by Fischer and Bates (2008) in their development of an integrity IAT.A secondary integrity IAT, assessing attitudes towards deviance, was included in an effort to improve deviance prediction.To validate the integrity IAT, participants provided information on past deviance in both academic and work situations and completed personality and overt integrity assessments.The collected data were analyzed in relation to IAT effect sizes to provide support for the measures construct, convergent and discriminant validity.Furthermore, this study also investigated the fakability of the integrity IAT as compared to the fakability of an overt measure of employee integrity (the EII).Results indicate that the two IATs possess sufficient validity and are significantly less fakable than the EII.Despite exhibiting sufficient validity, the second IAT did not behave as expected, indicating that it may be measuring a construct related to, but not the same as, integrity.The EII was shown to be significantly more predictive of CWBs and academic dishonesty, though these findings may be artifactual in nature.Further research is required to investigate how the IATs will behave in an applied setting.Psychometric Properties of the IAT ...........
Author: Andrew Clark
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2527684687