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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Clarifying Personality Measurement in IO: Comparing a Funnel Format and Likert-Type Approach in Predicting Employability

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Industrial/Organizational

  • Alexis Arsenault
    Northern Kentucky University
  • Allissa Burns
    Northern Kentucky University
  • Brianna Parks
    Northern Kentucky University
  • Seiter Maria
    Northern Kentucky University
  • Kinsey Bryant-Lees
    Northern Kentucky University

Abstract

The current study aims to clarify and advance personality measurement by comparing two response formats, and exploring reasons for the middle-category responses. The results suggest that trait level, traitedness, and adaptability are significant predictors of employability, reasons for middle category responses vary across traits.

Personality