Forced-choice and conventional personality assessment: Each may have unique value in pre-employment testing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 840-844

  Goffin, Richard D ^a   Jang, Isaac ^a   Skinner, Erica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contextual performance; Faking; Forced choice; General mental ability; Organizational citizenship behavior; Personality; Personnel selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052081589     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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