Incremental Validity of Locus of Control After Controlling for Cognitive Ability and Conscientiousness

Hattrup, Keith; O’Connell, Matthew S.; Labrador, Jeffrey R.

doi:10.1007/s10869-005-4519-1

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“…PTSD symptoms, for example, have been linked to greater external locus of control (Ahmed, 2007;Bisson, 2007). Finally, conscientiousness has also been linked to locus of control, with findings supporting the notion that increased conscientiousness is related to a more internal locus of control (Hattrup, O'Connell, & Labrador, 2005;Morrison, 1997). Finally, conscientiousness has also been linked to locus of control, with findings supporting the notion that increased conscientiousness is related to a more internal locus of control (Hattrup, O'Connell, & Labrador, 2005;Morrison, 1997).…”

Section: Locus Of Control As a Mediatormentioning

confidence: 83%

Work Volition Among U.S. Veterans

Duffy

Jadidian

Douglass

et al. 2015

The Counseling Psychologist

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The present study examined correlates of work volition-the perceived capacity to make occupational choices despite constraints-with a diverse sample of 213 U.S. veterans. Veterans with higher levels of formal education, higher yearly incomes, were married, and were employed, endorsed greater work volition. Those who experienced lower posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, endorsed lower levels of neuroticism, higher levels of conscientiousness, and higher levels of internal locus of control, also demonstrated greater levels of work volition. A structural model was run where PTSD symptoms, neuroticism, and conscientiousness were hypothesized to predict work volition via locus of control and compared with an alternative model. After identifying a best fitting model, bootstrapping analyses demonstrated that locus of control fully mediated the relations between PTSD symptoms, neuroticism, and conscientiousness to work volition. Specifically, the key reason PTSD symptoms, neuroticism, and conscientiousness were related to work volition was their effect on general locus of control. Practical implications are discussed.

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Section: Locus Of Control As a Mediatormentioning

confidence: 83%

Work Volition Among U.S. Veterans

Duffy

Jadidian

Douglass

et al. 2015

The Counseling Psychologist

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“…Bott et al, 2007;Hattrup, O'Connell, & Labrador, 2005). The measure is a composite of two reasoning subtests, one numerical and one analytical.…”

Section: Cognitive Abilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Impression Management: Evaluating three measures of response distortion and their relationship to job performance

O’Connell¹,

Kung²,

Tristan³

2011

Int J Selection Assessment

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Three measures of response distortion (i.e., social desirability, covariance index, and implausible answers) were examined in both applicant and incumbent samples. Performance data, including supervisor ratings of task and contextual performance as well as objective performance criteria such as tardiness, work-related accidents, and a customized work simulation, were obtained for the incumbent sample. Results provided further support for the existence of applicant faking behavior and shed light into the relationship between faking and job performance, largely depending on how one defines and measures faking as well as the performance criteria evaluated. Implications for future research and practice in personality assessment for selection purposes were discussed.

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“…The current project extended previous findings by examining the effect of measurement unreliability on classification accuracy, combined with its implications for productivity loss for the organization, where the alpha reliabilities of each predictor in the composite vary and are based on realistic conditions suggested by the organizational literature for what realistically might be found in job applicant data in a personnel selection setting: .81 for cognitive ability (Hattrup, O'Connell, & Labrador, 2005), .84 for structured interview (McDaniel, Whetzel, Schmidt, & Maurer, 1994),…”

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confidence: 69%

“…True correlations are above the main diagonal; these are also corrected for measurement error variance in the predictor and criterion (one can attenuate these by predictor reliability to obtain operational validities). Alpha reliabilities come from the following sources: a for cognitive ability, see Hattrup, O'Connell, and Labrador (2005); for the structured interview, see McDaniel, Whetzel, Schmidt, and Mauer (1994); c for conscientiousness, see Viswesvaran, and Ones (2000); d for biodata, see Dean (2004) Thus, to illustrate some general principles, the current thesis focuses on a relatively specific and limited case for illustration, based on a reasonable and current set of correlations that are derived from the Roth et al (2011) meta-analysis of employment research: Table 2 shows the correlations between four predictors and one criterion that are used to generate data with a multivariate normal distribution. I generated sample realizations of true scores as well as their corresponding observed scores, given the reliability coefficients and intercorrelations for these five variables (see Kaiser & Dickman, 1962, for the singular value decomposition method employed).…”

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confidence: 99%

Practical Impact of Predictor Reliability for Personnel Selection Decisions

Ock¹

2011

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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In personnel selection, employment tests are intended to reduce selection errors and increase mean performance. The current thesis examines the impact of psychometric properties of the predictors on selection accuracy, or the consistency between selection on observed scores versus true scores. Implications for validity and subsequent levels of job performance, or prediction accuracy, are also examined in light of common top-down personnel selection procedures. Results reflect the importance of having reliable and valid predictor measures; the work also extends ideas in the area of utility analysis. Acknowledgements

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Incremental Validity of Locus of Control After Controlling for Cognitive Ability and Conscientiousness

Cited by 39 publications

References 46 publications

Work Volition Among U.S. Veterans

Work Volition Among U.S. Veterans

Beyond Impression Management: Evaluating three measures of response distortion and their relationship to job performance

Practical Impact of Predictor Reliability for Personnel Selection Decisions

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