The relationship between self-perceived personality andimpression management on the neo-ffi

This study examined the relationship between self-perception of personality traits andadoption of a self-presentational strategy on the NEO-FFI. Research participants were providedwith blank NEO-FFI Summary Forms and asked to estimate their levels of Neuroticism,Extroversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness on a 3-point scale. Self-ratings onthe NEO Summary Form served as the measure of self-perceived personality. Participants thencompleted the NEO-FFI under one of five instructional sets (fake good, fake bad, graduatepsychology and police academy admissions and control). Results suggest that NEO-FFI scoreswere influenced by both instructional set and self-perceived personality. That is, even whenparticipants were faking, their NEO-FFI scores still reflected the influence of self-perceivedpersonality. The control group provided an opportunity to assess the relationship betweenself-perceived personality and scores obtained on the NEO-FFI under standard instructional set.Correlations ranged from 0.58 to 0.70 and were all statistically significant, suggesting amoderately strong overlap between individualsʹ perceptions of personality and scores obtained onthe NEO-FFI. The results suggest that for participants in this study, self-perceived personalitystructure influenced results when instructed to fake on the NEO-FFI