I have conducted several studies that get participants to complete the IPIP personality test while role play going for a job. A common finding is that the average correlation (i.e., $\bar{r}$ between big 5 personality scales increases the more you ask people to fake. For example, the rough pattern in the data is:Get participants to complete a personality test honesty ($\bar{r} = .25$)Get participants to complete do a job applicant role-play ($\bar{r} = .40$)Get participants to complete a job applicant role-play and explicitly tell then to fake it ($\bar{r} = .60$)Thus, increasing the amount of faking, increases the average intercorrelation.I'm interested in what happens when participants fake bad (e.g., specifically try to present a negative impression such as depressed, disturbed, or socially undesirable).What have previous studies found to be the effect of faking bad on the average scale intercorrelations of Big 5 personality?Have any researchers offered theoretical explanations for any observed effect of faking bad on such changes average scale intercorrelations?
How do the correlations between Big 5 personality change in studies examining faking bad?
personality;io psychology;social desirability