Honesty And The Honesty Test Research And Application

Honesty is the virtue of tradition in China. At the same time to inherit the tradition, we must face some moral coasting phenomena because the bad influence system is not perfect and the legal system is not sanity. The voice of calling the honesty is louder and louder as time goes by in morden society. Honesty is changed from one kind of moral exhibition of individual to the certainly qualification of the eligible member of the society. So it has the most value to study honesty.Based-on overviews of former research in both China and foreign countries. This study formes the theory hypothesis and tries to find a new vision to test honesty. Use the closed-questionnaire to test different people in Nanjing and investigate the data. Finally, the results of this study follow as:(1) The self-made questionnaire has good reliability and fair validity.(2) According to data analysis, there exits correlation between personality and honesty in certain degree,but it isn't definite.(3) The correlation between self-deception and impression-management is high, so are the scales. There is no evidence that personality can influence honesty.The study on honesty is few in our country, so it is difficult for us to do some researches. On the other hand, this study is meaningful and creative. Hope it can bring some new ideas for future researches.