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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"personality measures"”.
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The use of personality measures and proximity for the prediction of social behavior
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 C33
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The use of personality measures and proximity for the prediction of social behavior
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 C33
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An examination of the dynamic validities of cognitive ability and personality measures with performance
… cognitive ability (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998) and personality measures (Poropat, 2009; Hough & Furnham, 2003) are valid predictors of job performance. The dynamic nature of the relationships between cognitive ability and personality measures with performance over time spent on the job is less …
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Treatment Outcomes Related to EEG-Biofeedback for Chemical Dependency: Changes in MMPI-2 (University of Minnesota) Personality Measures and Long Term Abstinence Rates
Peniston and Kulkosky (1989, 1990) demonstrated the effectiveness of alpha-theta EEG-Biofeedback (EEG-BFB) in treating inpatient alcoholics noting significant improvements in depression, psychopathology, serum β-endorphin levels, and abstinence rates. The present study is an extension of a …
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The Relation Between Optimism And Job Performance: An Applied Setting
Research on cognitive ability measures consistently concludes that they are predictive of employee performance. While accounting for only about 9% of the variance in performance, however, cognitive ability measures are not sufficient. Alternative measures, such as measures of personality …
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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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Examining the fakability of forced-choice individual differences measures
… developing noncognitive individual differences measures, where individuals are forced to choose one or multiple statements out of several options. FC measures have been proposed as a valuable approach to reduce score inflation in high-stakes assessments, but their effectiveness has not yet been …
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IMPROVING DATA QUALITY WITH FOUR SHORT SENTENCES: HOW AN HONOR CODE CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE DURING DATA COLLECTION
… condition) and then completed a number of personality measures. Participant’s responses were screened for careless responding. I found that when participant’s only read an honor code without a picture of watchful eyes on the screen, they were significantly more likely to engage in careless …
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An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Scales from the International Personality Item Pool and the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised
Personality tests are widely used in the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology; however, few studies have focused on their psychometric properties using Item Response Theory. This paper uses IRT to examine the test information functions (TIFs) of two personality measures: the NEO-PI-R and …
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Stable inconsistency: a study of response inconsistency over time
Personality measures are currently a popular method for selection in the business world, despite issues such as poor predictive ability and the potential for output manipulation by participants. Another issue with personality testing that is often overlooked is that individuals sometimes respond …
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Interrole Conflict, Time Demands, and Individual Differences
… to develop an interrole conflict scale; (2) personality measures; (3) measures of time demands; and (4) demographic measures. Factor analyses were performed on the interrole conflict items. Four scales emerged that describe specific directions and sources of conflict. An increase in nonwork …
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"""Judgable"" persons: Personality characteristics and construct validation"
… characteristic, termed ""judgability,"" and its personality and behavioral correlates. One hundred sixty-four subjects were videotaped interacting with an opposite-sex partner. The subjects also completed six personality measures. A personality description of each subject was also provided by two …
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Development of A Self-Report Instrument For Assessing Deceptive Behaviors
… was to investigate the relationship between personality and lying. We employed a multi–method approach to instrument development. After developing nine categories of deceptions, we created and administered a self-report instrument to undergraduate college students (Study 1) that …
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Predicting noticing: individual differences in change blindness and inattentional blindness
… also completed a basic attention and personality measures. While attention ability predicts both intentional and incidental change detection, it does not predict inattentional blindness. Personality did not show a clear pattern of relationships with noticing visual anomalies.
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Comparing and contrasting cognitive and personality functioning in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
… for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) and the Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition (PIC-2) as measures of cognitive and personality functioning for children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder with comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (FASD/ADHD) and children with …
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Effects of respondent training on self-report personality assessment: an item response theory approach
… effects of short online respondent training on personality item interpretation and responding and the number of response categories (i.e. polytomous vs. dichotomous) on item performance, model-data fit, and criterion-related validity. Participants recruited from MTurk (n = 1977) were randomly …
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The importance of perceived social support system characteristics in predicting persistence in adult basic education
… three categories of variables--sociodemographic, personality, and social support system--in predicting persistence in Adult Basic Education. A particular emphasis was focused upon social support variables and the extent of their capacity to improve the level of prediction success which could be …
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Deciphering the general factor in interest measures: response style or attitude
… substantive factor with meaning in the field of personality and interest, or as a measurement artifact which should be disregarded. Across four independent samples, we evaluate these competing interpretations of the general factor. We compare the general factor with broad personality measures …
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Selected Learner Traits Related to Learning Interpersonal Skills: An Empirical-Descriptive Exploratory Study
… and ten selected factors from the Sixteen Factor Personality Questionnaire (Factors A+, B+, E+, H+, I+, L-, M+, O-, Q1+ and Q2+) and achievement in a sequence of instruction in interpersonal skills. The secondary purposes were to link these traits to a theory of instruction for teaching …
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