The role of situations in situational judgment tests: Effects on construct saturation, predictive validity, and applicant perceptions

• Main Authors: SCHÄPERS, Philipp, MUSSEL, Patrick, LIEVENS, Filip, KÖNIG, Cornelius J., FREUDENSTEIN, Jan-Philipp, KRUMM, Stefan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Situational Judgment Test; validity; contextualization; situation construal; Human Resources Management; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6432; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7431/viewcontent/Schaepersetal_2019_RoleofSituationsinSJTs.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent theorizing and empirical evidence suggesting thatsituational judgment tests (SJTs) are more context-independent than previouslythought has sparked a debate about the role of situation descriptions in SJTs.To contribute to this debate and add to our understanding of how SJTs work,this paper co...