Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Semester of Degree Completion

1975

Thesis Director

Shirley B. Moore

Abstract

Personality, uses of personality tests, and problems associated with reliability of personality tests are briefly discussed. The Kroger and Turnbull (1975) study dealing with "role-faking" is discussed. The review of the literature discusses the occupation of policeman under three categories: 1) assessment of policemen, 2) MMPI and police assessment, and 3) MMPI studies. The MMPI was given to 18 policemen, 43 male college students, and 40 female college students. The students were assigned to a control condition and an experimental condition. Subjects in the experimental group answered MMPI questions the way they thought policemen would answer the questions. An analysis of variance and D statistics were used to analyze the test data. The male experimental subjects were better able to "fake" policemen profiles than the female experimental subjects. Limitations of present study and recommendations for further research are presented.

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