Use of the ordinary motivational correction for questionnaire faking is theoretically bankrupt Use of attribution theory, in the Spectrad Model, puts correction in the ordinary range of the behavioral equation. Two approaches are given toward obtaining this equation, (1) by factoring scale scores and (2) by regressing scale scores in a particular distorting situation on an independent measure of the true scores. Examples of both are given. In using the latter the practitioner needs to accumulate a file of “correction matrices” simply obtainable for the chief situations of testing.
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