Knowing what to do in social situations: The general factor of personality and performance on situational judgment tests

Journal of Personnel Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-115

  Van der Linden, Dimitri ^a   Oostrom, Janneke K ^b   Born, Marise Ph ^a   Van der Molen, Henk T ^a   Serlie, Alec W ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GITP ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

General factor of personality; Leadership experience; Situational judgment tests; Social skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900404364     PISSN: 18665888     EISSN: 21905150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000113     Document Type: Article

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