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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Personality Measure"”.
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Nonvolitional Faking on a Personality Measure: Testing the Influence of Unconscious Processes
Personality measures were predicted to be susceptible to response distortion above and beyond volitional strategies of impression management. A 2 (Instruction Set) x 2 (Personality Feedback) x 2 (Mortality Salience) factorial design addressed social desirability biases in responding to personality …
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Proctored versus unproctored online testing using a personality measure: Are there any differences?
… of the ipsative version of Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ32i and (2) to extend online testing research using OPQ32i with a U.S population. A large sample (N = 5223) of archival selection data from a financial company was used, one group was tested in proctored and the other …
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Not to be Taken Out of Context: The Development and Validation of a Contextualized Measure of Leader Personality
… of incorporating a relevant context into a personality questionnaire (Holtrop, Born, De Vries, & De Vries, 2014). In recent years, research has demonstrated that the contextualization of a personality measure improves its criterion validity for context-congruent criteria (Shaffer & …
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Revealing Socially Undesirable Information: A Comparison of Bipolar Adjective Scaling Methods
Despite the popularity of personality testing for personnel selection, criticisms have arisen regarding the potential for response distortions by applicants. Researchers have developed many techniques to control for such response distortions, including the use of different response formats. Using …
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The Effect of Divulging the Intent of the Conditional Reasoning Test of Aggression to Responses
… reasoning (CR; James, 1998) system of personality measurement, items are constructed to have the appearance of a logic or reasoning test. This characteristic of CR tests is designed to combat response distortion by test takers in personality testing. The CR system was used to develop …
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Chronic trauma effects on personality trait trajectory in police officers
The impact of chronic trauma exposure on personality trajectories over time was examined in a sample of urban police officers. Scores from a personality measure taken in pre-hire psychological evaluations were compared with follow up scores administered for this study five to ten years later. An …
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Behavioral Economics of Persecutory Delusions
… is distinct from rational mistrust and can be measured computationally. Further examination in a group of individuals with psychosis show a neural dissociation between spite sensitivity and rational mistrust as well. We did not find this dissociation in a community sample of twins, yet did find …
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MMPI-2-RF : clinical utility with a traumatic brain injury population
The 567-item MMPI-2 is the most widely used personality measure; it requires a sixth-grade reading level, takes 60-90 minutes to administer, and reports robust psychometrics. However, traumatic brain injury (TBI) sequelae can cause cognitive deficits that affect test-taking abilities and item …
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Chronic trauma effects on personality trait trajectory in police officers
The impact of chronic trauma exposure on personality trajectories over time was examined in a sample of urban police officers. Scores from a personality measure taken in pre-hire psychological evaluations were compared with follow up scores administered for this study five to ten years later. An …
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A Study of the Relationship between Borderline-dysregulated Personality and Treatment-resistant Depression in the Course of the TADS Randomised Controlled Trial
… explored the relationship between borderline personality disorder, difficult to treat depression and treatment outcome. Method: The study used data collected in the course of the Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS). The TADS was a randomised controlled trial comparing Long Term …
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Incremental validity of assessment centre exercise ratings over and above general mental ability and personality traits in predicting financial intermediaries regulatory examination success and sales performance
… when used in combination with other traditional measures (e.g., interviews, work style interest questionnaire, general mental ability and personality traits) in an incremental validity study. Moreover, the study expanded the criterion domain by considering prediction models for multiple outcome …
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The Sex Typed Activities Test: A Supplementary Measure of Masculine and Feminine Dimensions of Personality
<p>This paper details the development of a personality measure which differentiates among individuals on the basis of their self-reported comfort with a variety of day to day activities. These activities were systematically pre-se lected to be either masculine or feminine in nature. The history of …
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The Resentful Embittered Personality, Adjustment and Depression in Student and Marital Relationships
… focused on hostility as a state rather than a personality trait and has not attempted to explicate the link between embittered personality and depression. To achieve these goals, a newly created measure called the Resentful Embittered Personality Scale (REPS) was evaluated in detail. First, the …
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Ability emotional intelligence, trait emotional intelligence and borderline personality disorder
… validity of four Emotional Intelligence (EI) measures examined were one ability EI measure( Mayer-Salovey-CarusoE motional Intelligence Test [MSCEIT]); and three self-report/trait EI measures (Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale [SEIS], Multidimensional Emotional Intelligence Assessment …
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Self-Reference Elicits Slower Recall for Personality Congruent Adjectives: An Item-Specific Processing Effect
The fact that people remember more personality trait adjectives in a memory test after making self-reference judgments, relative to other types of judgments (e.g., other-reference and semantics), has been attributed to greater elaborative (i.e., item-specific) and organizational (i.e., relational) …
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Anchoring vignette: the good, the bad and the ugly
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Competitive personality and work outcomes: A meta-analysis and scale development
… to our understanding of competitive personality. First, I define competitive personality as a trait. Second, I review the historical origins of the trait, as it emerged in four adjacent subfields within psychology (i.e., health psychology, psychology of gender, cross-cultural …
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The Occupational Engagement Scale for Employed Adults - Revised (OES-EA-R): Further validation and correlations with personality and Holland code type
… instrument, specifically examining whether the measure factored out in a similar manner as the initial line of research. A screening measure was used to briefly assess participants' levels of job satisfaction, as gauged by the Job Satisfaction Blank (Hoppock, 1935). The OES-EA-R was also …
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The Impact of Complications and Errors on Surgeons
… event, using surgeon responses to standardised measures to establish predictive statistical models. Methods UK Surgeons were invited to participate in an online survey. An opportunistic sampling strategy was used, involving organisations such as the Royal College of Surgeons of England and …
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Examining the Relationship Between Impulsive Personalities and Neural Functioning in Cocaine-Addicted Participants
… study examines the relationship of impulsive personality facets and neural functioning associated with inhibition. SUBJECTS: The study sample included 24 healthy control participants and 56 cocaine-addicted participants. Participants ranged in age from 25 to 54 years old with a mean age of …