Individual differences in ability to fake vocational interests

Abstract

College students were instructed to attempt to fake high scores on four scales of the Strong Interest Blank. All were able to effect increases in mean scores on the scales with reliabilities of .56 to .89. Intercorrelations of faking scores ranged from .05 to .35, and were not significantly correlated with intelligence, sex, or information about the occupation. Item analysis showed that successful faking depends on predicting the more subtle differences in interests. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)