Selection of subprofessional hospital care personnel

N, Cliff; Newman, Sidney H.; Howell, M A

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“…Further-more, there is some question as to whether his measure tapped personality or intellectual variables. This is important because intellectual factors have been shown to have some power in differentiating good and poor aides (Cliff, Newman, & Howell, 1959;Levine, 1951;Love, 1955). Yerburg, Holzberg, and Alessi (1951) were able to differentially identify 5% of "definitely good" aides and 32% of "definitely poor" aides by use of the revised beta examination and the multiple choice Rorschach.…”

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The use of the MMPI in the selection of hospital aides.

Butterfield¹,

Warren²

1962

Journal of Applied Psychology

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MMPIs were administered to 2700 applicants for the position of psychiatric aide in an institution for the mentally retarded. MMPI subscale scores of all persons hired and subsequently discharged were compared with groups of like sex who: (a) were hired in the same year but resigned for reasons not associated with the job, (b) stayed in the employment of the institution, or (c) were not hired. No single subscale differentiated between the groups. The few differences which were found between the groups when a variety of configurational analyses were used did not reappear in a cross-validation sample. Conclusion: the hypothesis that personality test scores are related to the competency of psychiatric aides was not supported.

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