Integrity Testing in the Czech Republic

Abstract

This chapter introduces the original Czech integrity testing battery, created according to Robinson and Bennet’s Work Deviance concept and complemented by the Big Five and Dark Triad personality constructs. The authors present a research project so far unparalleled in the Czech and Slovak speaking environment, using their original instrument to test moral integrity in mutual relations to other relevant conceptions, such as Moral Identity, Moral Disengagement (and others), in a clinical, blue-collar and white-collar samples. Their hypothetical model of external and internal variables influencing integrity aspects has yielded some preliminary results that need further interpretation. One of the unique features of the study was an attempt to combine the self-report measures of various morality constructs with a personality interview based on Otto Kernberg’s psychodynamic theory of personality organisation, which is discussed in the context of general plausibility of employing conceptually disparate methods in psychological testing.