1. Measuring Achievement Striving via a Situational Judgment Test: The Value of Additional Context
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Juliya Golubovich, Christopher J. Lake, Cristina Anguiano-Carrasco, and Jacob Seybert
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situational judgment tests ,achievement striving ,personality traits ,interactionism ,contextualization ,bandwidth-fidelity ,Psychology ,BF1-990 - Abstract
The study extends personality and situational judgment test (SJT) research by using an SJT to measure achievement striving in a contextualized manner. Employed students responded to the achievement striving SJT, traditional personality scales, and workplace performance measures. The SJT was internally consistent, items loaded on a single factor, and scores converged with other measures of achievement striving. The SJT provided incremental criterion-related validity for the performance criteria beyond less-contextualized achievement striving measures. Findings suggest that achievement-related work scenarios may provide additional criterion-relevant information not captured by measures that are less contextualized.
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- 2020
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