Personality Scale Validities Increase Throughout Medical School

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1514-1535

  Lievens, Filip ^a   Ones, Deniz S ^b   Dilchert, Stephan ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

grades; longitudinal validation; medical school; personality validity; professional education

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; BELGIUM; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STUDENT DROPOUTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72249108746     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016137     Document Type: Article

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