Cognitive assessment of social-evaluative anxiety in the job interview: Job Interview Self-Statement Schedule.

Abstract

The development of the Job Interview Self-Statement Schedule (JISSS), a device for the assessment of positive and negative cognitions that may occur during job-selection interviews, is described. Procedures for item generation, item selection, and subscale development are detailed, and preliminary normative, factor analytic, reliability, and validity data are reported. The JISSS appears to be an internally consistent and valid measure of cognitive activity during interview imagery. Positive and negative self-statement scores were significantly related to interview anxiety, but not to social desirability or more general evaluative concerns. Highly interview-anxious subjects achieved higher negative self-statement scores and lower positive self-statement scores than did low-anxious subjects. The positive selfstatement scores of low-anxious subjects were significantly higher than their negative scores, whereas the positive and negative scores of high-anxious subjects did not differ. The JISSS may be used to measure subjects' self-statements during interviews or to measure the degree of cognitive change in response to cognitive-behavioral interventions for interview anxiety.

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