Journal article
Assessing Personality With a Structured Employment Interview: Construct-Related Validity and Susceptibility to Response Inflation
Journal of applied psychology, Vol.90(3), pp.536-552
05/01/2005
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.3.536
PMID: 15910148
Abstract
The authors evaluated the extent to which a personality-based structured interview was susceptible to response inflation. Interview questions were developed to measure facets of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability. Interviewers administered mock interviews to participants instructed to respond honestly or like a job applicant. Interviewees completed scales of the same 3 facets from the NEO Personality Inventory, under the same honest and applicant-like instructions. Interviewers also evaluated interviewee personality with the NEO. Multitrait-multimethod analysis and confirmatory factor analysis provided some evidence for the construct-related validity of the personality interviews. As for response inflation, analyses revealed that the scores from the applicant-like condition were significantly more elevated (relative to honest condition scores) for self-report personality ratings than for interviewer personality ratings. In addition, instructions to respond like an applicant appeared to have a detrimental effect on the structure of the self-report and interview ratings, but not interviewer NEO ratings.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessing Personality With a Structured Employment Interview: Construct-Related Validity and Susceptibility to Response Inflation
- Creators
- Chad H. Van Iddekinge - Human Resources Research OrganizationPatrick H. Raymark - Clemson UniversityPhilip L. Roth - Clemson University
- Contributors
- Sheldon Zedeck (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied psychology, Vol.90(3), pp.536-552
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0021-9010.90.3.536
- PMID
- 15910148
- ISSN
- 0021-9010
- eISSN
- 1939-1854
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380379102771
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