Situational Judgment Tests: From low-fidelity simulations to alternative measures of personality and the person-situation interplay

• Main Authors: LIEVENS, Filip, SCHÄPERS, Philipp
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Situational Judgment Tests; personality-situation interplay; simulation; implicit trait policies; Human Resources Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6501; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7500/viewcontent/200114_Wood_SJT_chapter_FINAL_R1__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In employment and education settings, Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) have made strong inroads. So far, however, they are still underutilized in personality research. The objective of this chapter is to outline how SJTs might be adapted to measure personality traits, shed light onto the person-situation interplay, and stimulate research on it. We start by discussing the traditional simulation-based view on SJTs, including information on their development and research results. Next, we show how more recent versions have started to assess people’s knowledge of relevant behavior related to personality traits. Finally, we specify various strategies as to how SJTs might be further adapted to shed light on the personality-situation interplay. Along these lines, we show how SJTs might be used to assess within-person variability across situations, situation-trait contingencies, proactive transactions, behavioral responses, narratives and goals, and personality disorders.