The validity of the Giotto integrity test

Giotto is a work-based personality questionnaire designed to assess integri ty. It contains 101 items and generates scores on seven scales based on the Prudentius model of personality. Because these traits are evaluative in na ture, Giotto makes use of an ipsative format in which force choice items ar e matched for social desirability. The intrinsic non-linearity of the ipsat ive framework is addressed using neural network programming techniques. Gio tto has been standardised on 701 people in a variety of employment position s. Several studies supporting the validity of Giotto are reported. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.