Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school

Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor-criterion relationships. The authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting academic performance in medical school across multiple years, investigating whether criterion-related validities chang...

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Main Authors: LIEVENS, Filip, ONES, Deniz S., DILCHERT, Stephan
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-65152019-08-30T01:46:41Z Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school LIEVENS, Filip ONES, Deniz S. DILCHERT, Stephan Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor-criterion relationships. The authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting academic performance in medical school across multiple years, investigating whether criterion-related validities change over time. In this longitudinal investigation, an entire European country's 1997 cohort of medical students was studied throughout their medical school career (Year 1, N = 627; Year 7, N = 306). Over time, extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness factor and facet scale scores showed increases in operational validity for predicting grade point averages. Although there may not be any advantages to being open and extraverted for early academic performance. these traits gain importance for later academic performance when applied practice increasingly plays a part in the curriculum. Conscientiousness, perhaps more than any other personality trait, appears to be an increasing asset for medical students: Operational validities of conscientiousness increased from .18 to .45. In assessing the utility of personality measures, relying on early criteria might underestimate the predictive value of personality variables. Implications for personality measures to predict work performance are discussed. 2009-11-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5516 info:doi/10.1037/a0016137 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6515/viewcontent/increase__1_.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Personality validity longitudinal validation grades medical school professional education Industrial and Organizational Psychology Medical Education Organizational Behavior and Theory
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
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country Singapore
Singapore
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topic Personality validity
longitudinal validation
grades
medical school
professional education
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Medical Education
Organizational Behavior and Theory
spellingShingle Personality validity
longitudinal validation
grades
medical school
professional education
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Medical Education
Organizational Behavior and Theory
LIEVENS, Filip
ONES, Deniz S.
DILCHERT, Stephan
Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school
description Admissions and personnel decisions rely on stable predictor-criterion relationships. The authors studied the validity of Big Five personality factors and their facets for predicting academic performance in medical school across multiple years, investigating whether criterion-related validities change over time. In this longitudinal investigation, an entire European country's 1997 cohort of medical students was studied throughout their medical school career (Year 1, N = 627; Year 7, N = 306). Over time, extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness factor and facet scale scores showed increases in operational validity for predicting grade point averages. Although there may not be any advantages to being open and extraverted for early academic performance. these traits gain importance for later academic performance when applied practice increasingly plays a part in the curriculum. Conscientiousness, perhaps more than any other personality trait, appears to be an increasing asset for medical students: Operational validities of conscientiousness increased from .18 to .45. In assessing the utility of personality measures, relying on early criteria might underestimate the predictive value of personality variables. Implications for personality measures to predict work performance are discussed.
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author LIEVENS, Filip
ONES, Deniz S.
DILCHERT, Stephan
author_facet LIEVENS, Filip
ONES, Deniz S.
DILCHERT, Stephan
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title Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school
title_short Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school
title_full Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school
title_fullStr Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school
title_full_unstemmed Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school
title_sort personality scale validities increase throughout medical school
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2009
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5516
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6515/viewcontent/increase__1_.pdf
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