Personality scale validities increase throughout medical school

• Main Authors: LIEVENS, Filip, ONES, Deniz S., DILCHERT, Stephan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Personality validity; longitudinal validation; grades; medical school; professional education; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Medical Education; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5516; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6515/viewcontent/increase__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...