A total of 102 participants rated overt integrity test items on three dimensions (invasion of privacy, ease of faking, job relatedness). Integrity test items were grouped into seven categories. Participants identified items that required direct admissions of counterproductive behaviors as being the most invasive but also the easiest to fake. Job relatedness and invasion of privacy were both found to be correlated with ease of faking perceptions. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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