Effects of situation descriptions on the construct-related validity of construct-driven situational judgment tests

Author

Philipp Christopher SCHAEPERS, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Jan-Philipp FREUDENSTEIN, Freie Universitat Berlin
Patrick MUSSEL, Freie Universitat Berlin
Filip LIEVENS, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Stefan KRUMM, Freie Universitat Berlin

Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

8-2020

Abstract

Despite the common belief that situation descriptions in SJTs are central to the measurement of targeted constructs, recent studies demonstrated that omitting situation descriptions had only minor effects on SJT performance and validity. However, these results might be due to the fact that traditional SJTs often fail to assess well-defined constructs. So, we aimed to examine the relationships between construct-driven SJT scores with and without situations and self- and peer-rated personality dimensions (N = 158). Results revealed almost no difference in construct-related validity between both versions. The conscientiousness facet emerged as the only exception, for which the SJT scores without situation descriptions yielded a significantly higher convergent correlation.

Keywords

Situational judgment test, Construct-related validity, Contextualization, Personality assessment

Discipline

Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Research Areas

Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources

Publication

Journal of Research in Personality

Volume

87

First Page

1

Last Page

5

ISSN

0092-6566

Identifier

10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103963

Publisher

Elsevier: 24 months

Citation

SCHAEPERS, Philipp Christopher; FREUDENSTEIN, Jan-Philipp; MUSSEL, Patrick; LIEVENS, Filip; and KRUMM, Stefan. Effects of situation descriptions on the construct-related validity of construct-driven situational judgment tests. (2020). Journal of Research in Personality. 87, 1-5.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6600

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Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Comments

All data and code are available on the Open Science Framework https://osf.io/py6cm/

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103963