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JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 193-209Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-019-09664-5
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Faking; Self-presentation; Interviews; Geographical psychology; Regional personality tests; Personnel selection; Socioecological psychology
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Researchers found individual and regional predictors for applicant faking intentions, such as conscientiousness, competitive worldviews, and religiosity. Macro-psychological conscientiousness and competitive worldviews were correlated with average faking intentions at the regional level, while regional economic situation had no effect.
Research on faking behavior and underlying intentions has mostly employed an intraindividual perspective, stressing the role of individual-level predictors. Inspired by theoretical arguments (e.g., from socioecological psychology) and cross-cultural studies, we hypothesize and demonstrate that in addition to individual-level predictors, there are also regional differences in faking intentions (within a country) and systematic links to regional-level features. Specifically, we tested and compared individual- and region-level predictors of applicant faking intentions (N = 4860 MTurk workers) across the largest 50 Metropolitan Statistical Areas of the USA using multi-level techniques. We found individual-level effects of conscientiousness, competitive worldviews, and religiosity on individual-level faking intentions. On the regional level, macro-psychological conscientiousness was negatively associated with the average faking intentions in a region, while macro-psychological competitive worldviews (i.e., the prevailing competitive worldviews in a region) showed a positive relationship. Additionally, macro-psychological competitive worldviews predicted individual-level faking intentions even when controlling for individual-level competitive worldviews. No effects were found for regional parameters such as the economic situation of a region. We discuss implications for research and personnel selection.
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