Recent research has highlighted competitive worldviews as a key predictor of faking—the intentional distortion of answers by candidates in the selection context. According to theoretical assumptions, applicants’ abilities, and especially their cognitive abilities, should influence whether faking motivation, triggered by competitive worldviews, can be turned into successful faking behavior. Therefore, we examined the influence of competitive worldviews on faking in personality tests and investigated a possible moderation of this relationship by cognitive abilities in three independent high school and university student samples (N₁ = 133, N₂ = 137, N₃ = 268). Our data showed neither an influence of the two variables nor of their interaction on faking behavior. We discuss possible reasons for these findings and give suggestions for further research.

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愿意赢得胜利还是足够聪明？竞争性世界观，认知能力与申请者伪造品格之间的关系

最近的研究强调了竞争的世界观是伪造的主要预测因素，即伪造的候选人在选择情况下故意回答的问题。根据理论上的假设，申请人的能力，尤其是他们的认知能力，应该影响由竞争性世界观触发的虚假动机是否可以转化为成功的虚假行为。因此，我们在人格测验中考察了竞争性世界观对伪造品的影响，并通过三种独立的高中和大学生样本（N ₁  = 133，N ₂  = 137，N _3）中的认知能力研究了这种关系的可能调节。 = 268）。我们的数据既没有显示这两个变量的影响，也没有显示它们对假冒行为的相互作用。我们讨论了这些发现的可能原因，并提出了进一步研究的建议。