A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT METHODS OF DETECTING INATTENTIVE RESPONDING ON SELF-REPORT PERSONALITY MEASURES Fleischer, Michael Detection Inattentive Personality Reliabilities Respondents Survey The goal of this study was to identify the best indices for detecting inattentive respondents. This was accomplished by collecting data from respondents who were attentive and inattentive. Five different methods for detecting inattention were com- pared to determine which of these methods were the most effective. The indices used for detecting inattention were: instructional items, nonsensical items, Fleischer type items, total time, and psychometric consistency. These were classified into two types item based indices and non-item based indices. It was hypothesized and found that Fleischer items were viewed as less awed or out of place when compared to nonsen- sical and instructional item types. Additional hypotheses tested the effectiveness of each the indices and supported the hypothesis, in finding the Fleischer type and total time to be the best identifiers of inattentive respondents. The final hypothesis did not find support that removing inattentive respondents would yield only better relia- bilities. The results were mixed and the interpretation of this and the other findings results are discussed in detail in the following paper. Ph.D. in Psychology, May 2016 Mead, Alan 2016 2016-05 Dissertation application/pdf islandora:7044 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3885 PSYCH / Institute of Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access