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Article: Predictive validity of personal statements and the role of the five-factor model of personality in relation to medical training.
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- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Of the available selection techniques personal statements (PSs) are one of the most widely used (Anderson & Shackleton, 1993; Harris, Dworkin, & Park, 1990; Shackleton & Newell, 1991; Steiner & Gilliland, 1996). However, while there is ample work demonstrating the predictive validity of other `popular' selection techniques including (1) bio-data blanks (Hunter & Hunter, 1984) and (2) personality measures (Barrick & Mount, 1991; Salgado, 1997; Salgado & Rumbo, 1997; Tett, Jackson, & Rothstein, 1991) there are no data relating to the predictive validity of actual PSs categories (see Anderson & Shackleton, 1993; Kluger, Reilly, & Russell, 1991). This paper, therefore, ...