Is the validity of conscientiousness stable across time? Testing the role of trait bandwidth

Harari, Michael B.; Naemi, Bobby; Viswesvaran, Chockalingam

doi:10.1111/joop.12241

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“…Furthermore, we found no clear evidence for increasing validities of APT over the 3‐year study program, besides small (descriptive) changes in the predictive validity of antisocial and obsessive‐compulsive tendencies with regard to GPA across the Bachelor program. Therefore, our results seem more in line with recent findings on the changeability of the validities of global compared to specific traits (Harari, Naemi, & Viswesvaran, ). Our results suggest that APT predict success throughout an (undergraduate) engineering study program in terms of “getting ahead” (e.g., obsessive‐compulsive), as well as “getting along” (e.g., antisocial) (Hogan & Holland, ).…”

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Aberrant personality tendencies and academic success throughout engineering education

Bipp

Kleingeld

Snijders

2019

Journal of Personality

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Objective In a longitudinal field study, we investigated the predictive associations between six aberrant personality tendencies (schizotypal, avoidant, borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, obsessive‐compulsive) and academic success of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics students. Method Bachelor students of Industrial Engineering at a Dutch technical university (N = 432, Mage = 18.45; 87.3% male) filled out the NEO‐PI‐R and aberrant tendencies were operationalized by the five‐factor model (FFM) compound technique. Indicators of academic achievement (grades) and persistence (credit points earned per year, re‐enrollment, study duration) were made available by the academic office. Results Validities across the 3 years of the study program consistently support the role of two aberrant tendencies: Individuals with high antisocial tendency reached lower academic achievement, took longer to finish their study, and had a higher risk of dropout. The obsessive‐compulsive tendency was associated with higher grade‐point average, faster study progress, and higher retention rates and effects were still visible while controlling for known predictors (high school grades, Conscientiousness). Contrary to our expectations, we found no evidence for inverted U‐shaped relationships. Conclusions We used the compound technique for aberrant tendencies based on the FFM in the academic context and our findings support the importance of personality‐based psychopathological tendencies for academic success.

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Aberrant personality tendencies and academic success throughout engineering education

Bipp

Kleingeld

Snijders

2019

Journal of Personality

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“…This finding can be partially related to the bandwidth-fidelity debate in psychological assessment (Cronbach, 1990; Salgado, 2017). Some studies in personality and cognitive assessment have shown that bandwidth instruments have larger reliability and larger criterion-oriented validity than narrower measures (Ree et al, 1994; Salgado et al, 2013, 2015b; Salgado, 2017; Harari et al, 2019). This seems to be the case in the dimensions examined in this reliability generalization study, as the narrower dimensions (task, contextual, and positive performance) showed smaller interrater reliability than overall job performance.…”

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Meta-Analysis of Interrater Reliability of Supervisory Performance Ratings: Effects of Appraisal Purpose, Scale Type, and Range Restriction

Salgado

Moscoso

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Objectives: This reliability generalization study aimed to estimate the mean and variance of the interrater reliability coefficients (ryy) of supervisory ratings of overall, task, contextual, and positive job performance. The moderating effect of the appraisal purpose and the scale type was examined. It was hypothesized that the ratings collected for research purposes and multi-item scales have higher ryy. It was also examined whether ryy was similar for the four performance dimensions.Method: A database consisting of 224 independent samples was created and hierarchical sub-grouping meta-analyses were conducted.Results: The appraisal purpose was a moderator of ryy for the four performance dimensions. Scale type was a moderator of ryy for overall and task performance collected for research purposes. The findings also suggest that supervisors seem to have less difficulty evaluating overall job performance than task, contextual, and positive performance. The best estimates of the observed ryy for overall job performance are 0.61 for research-collected ratings and 0.45 for administrative-collected ratings.Conclusions: (1) Appraisal purpose moderates ryy and researchers and practitioners should be aware of its effects before collecting ratings or using empirically-derived interrater reliability distributions, (2) Scale type seems to moderate ryy in the case of the ratings collected for research purposes, only, (3) overall job performance is more reliably rated than task, contextual, and positive performance. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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“…In terms of theory testing, Feeney et al (2015) tested anxiety coping theory by examining mean-level differences in applicant reactions. Similarly, Harari et al (2019) used SE tests to show that while global conscientiousness was consistently associated with performance outcomes, relationships with the facets of this trait varied over time. Their results suggested that researchers and practitioners should develop selection systems around broad traits that will be more generalizable over time (such as global conscientiousness).…”

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A Review of Measurement Equivalence in Organizational Research: What's Old, What's New, What's Next?

Somaraju

Nye

Olenick

2021

Organizational Research Methods

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The study of measurement equivalence has important implications for organizational research. Nonequivalence across groups or over time can affect the results of a study and the conclusions that are drawn from it. As a result, the review paper by Vandenberg & Lance (2000) has been highly cited and has played an important role in understanding the measurement of organizational constructs. However, that paper is now 20 years old, and a number of advances have been made in the application and interpretation of measurement equivalence (ME) since its publication. Therefore, the goal of the present paper is to provide an updated review of ME techniques that describes recent advances in testing for ME and proposes a taxonomy of potential sources of nonequivalence. Finally, we articulate recommendations for applying these newer methods and consider future directions for measurement equivalence research in the organizational literature.

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Is the validity of conscientiousness stable across time? Testing the role of trait bandwidth

Cited by 43 publications

References 28 publications

Aberrant personality tendencies and academic success throughout engineering education

Aberrant personality tendencies and academic success throughout engineering education

Meta-Analysis of Interrater Reliability of Supervisory Performance Ratings: Effects of Appraisal Purpose, Scale Type, and Range Restriction

A Review of Measurement Equivalence in Organizational Research: What's Old, What's New, What's Next?

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