Modeling Individual and Environmental Influences on Performance Determinants: The Search for Linear, Quadratic, and Multiplicative Effects

This study argues that researchers have been ignoring one of the seminal theoretical arguments in the performance literature; that individual differences and environment characteristics do not directly influence performance itself, rather they relate to the determinants of performance. This study explicitly examines the relationships between individual differences, environmental variables, and performance determinants. Using as combination of a reduced Campbell (1990) model of performance and the P-E fit framework this study demonstrates how both individual difference and subjective and objective features of the environment combine in linear and multiplicative ways to influence performance determinants. Results show that relationships among antecedents and determinants of performance are complex, but testable and theoretically reasonable. Several aspects of Campbell's model of performance were supported. In addition, the importance of P-J fit as a construct related to performance determinants was demonstrated.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Bashshur, Michael R.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hulin, Charles L.

• Psychology, Industrial

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3242792

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82112