Predictive validity of integrity tests for workplace deviance across industries and countries in the past 50 years: A meta-analytic review

The current meta-analysis provides a comprehensive and updated review on integrity-testing findings across industries countries in the past 50 years (k = 150, N 67,016). Integrity tests were coded into types of overt tests, covert biodata, organizational measures, value/moral reasoning/situational judgment integrity-related cognitive ability novel measures. criterion measures workplace deviance included CWBs, unethical pro-organizational behaviors, other deviant behaviors. For information source, both computer manual searches performed to locate relevant published unpublished papers. A variety sources examined avoid publication bias, bias analyses conducted uphold methodological rigor. Results indicated that all integrity analyzed significant predicting deviance, with an overall mean validity estimate corrected for indirect range restriction measurement error as .43 (95% CI [.32; .52]; p < .001). Among value-oriented relatively large estimates .60 [.41; .75]; .001) .65 [.53; .74]; .001), respectively. relationship between was found be significantly moderated by type test, industry, country, source. effect size largest military law enforcement sector, work samples Canada, Germany, Israel, Romania, United States. However, moderating effects nature validation sample, strategy, status, medium gender, nonsignificant. Compared previous reviews, our study unique its cross-cultural direction, which primary studies testing different languages (e.g., publications Chinese) associated cultural variations. New insights comparisons meta-analytic discussed.