New Scale Development for Enhanced Suitability Screening

Abstract

The Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System (TAPAS) has demonstrated validity for predicting important military outcomes in a broad range of positions in the U.S. Army. Nevertheless, assessing additional personality dimensions may help to improve prediction and provide a more complete profile of individuals. Therefore, the goal of the present task was to identify additional traits that are not measured by the TAPAS but could be developed to improve the prediction of performance and counterproductive work behavior. After conducting a review of the literature, six new dimensions were identified that could be incorporated into the TAPAS. Next, large statement pools were developed for each dimension and pretested in a sample of over 2,000 Soldiers. This effort produced approximately 278 useable statements with at least 45 statements per dimension. Subsequent research is needed to examine the validity of these new scales.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1055219

Entities

People

  • Christopher Nye
  • Fritz Drasgow
  • Heather M. Wolters
  • Oleksandr Chernyshenko
  • Rabiah S. Muhammad
  • Stephen Stark

Organizations

  • Drasgow Consulting Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Army Personnel
  • Classification
  • Educational Psychology
  • Literature
  • Literature Surveys
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Personality Assessment
  • Personnel Selection
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.