Typical job analysis methods derive personal qualities (PQs) such as traits, constructs, skills and attributes that are important to the job. Such methods are unsuitable to derive measurement criteria for use in general selection interviews because ...

The study was designed to compare the Rorschach protocols of violent murderers with nonviolent offenders. A total of 46 convicted male felons, that is, 23 violent murderers and 23 nonviolent offenders with a mean age of 34.43 and 32.48, respectively, ...

Two studies are presented in which the validity of the Star Counting Test (SCT), an attention test for children, was examined. In the first study the test was administered to a sample of 339 elementary school children of 9 years old. In addition, a ...

The Social Problem-Solving Inventory (SPSI; ) is a theory-driven instrument that was designed to measure two major hypothesized components of the social problem-solving process: (1) problem orientation and (2) problem-solving proper. ...

It has been suggested that people's cognitive and attributional strategies influence the extent to which they are successful in various situations. A 60-item self-report scale for measuring these strategies was developed. This Strategy and Attribution ...

were among the first to address explicitly the need to differentiate between ‘Shyness' and ‘Sociability', because these two constructs do not represent the opposite poles of one dimension. In this study, the ‘Shyness' and ‘...

The author reports on the early stages of the International Test Commission (ITC) of which he was one of the founders. The roots of the ITC can be found in the second half of the sixties when some Swiss psychologists decided to attempt to gain a more ...

The conditions are investigated in which Spanish university teachers carry out their teaching and research functions. 655 teachers from the University of Oviedo took part in this study by completing the Academic Setting Evaluation Questionnaire (ASEQ). Of ...