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Psychological assessment in industry
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 1999 Recent and ongoing developments in the South African labour legislation, and especially the implications of the Employment Equity Act, highlight once again the importance of the validation of instruments to be used for assessment purposes. A needs analysis was done with regard to psychological assessment in industry today.
R. P. Van Der Merwe
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A valid and reliable measure of nothing: disentangling the “Gavagai effect” in survey data [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background In three recent studies, Maul demonstrated that sets of nonsense items can acquire excellent psychometric properties. Our aim was to find out why responses to nonsense items acquire a well-defined structure and high internal consistency ...
Victor B. Arias +4 more
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Personality Neuroscience, 2022 Perfectionists strive for a flawless performance because they are intrinsically motivated to set and achieve high goals (personal standards perfectionism; PSP) and/or because they are afraid to be negatively evaluated by others (evaluative concern ...
André Mattes, Markus Mück, Jutta Stahl
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Understanding human error processing is a highly relevant interdisciplinary goal. More than 30 years of research in this field have established the error negativity (Ne) as a fundamental electrophysiological marker of various types of erroneous decisions
André Mattes +5 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Psychological achievement and aptitude tests are fundamental elements of the everyday school, academic and professional lives of students, instructors, job applicants, researchers and policymakers.
Sonja Breuer +2 more
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Nudging sugar portions: a real-world experiment
BMC Nutrition, 2021 Background Sugar overconsumption is a major contributor to overweight and obesity, with daily consumption greatly exceeding the WHO’s recommendations. The aim of the present study was to determine whether using a functionally modified sugar shaker as a ...
Karoline Villinger +3 more
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Mental health and post-traumatic growth in multiple sclerosis
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction people suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) can experience post-traumatic growth (PTG), a sense of personal growth and benefit gain. Patients mental health can play an important role in PTG development.
I. Gil-González +2 more
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The Psychological Assessment of Clerics [PDF]
Pastoral Psychology, 2017 The psychological assessment of novice and experienced clerics is an important component of ordination, suitability, and risk evaluation to ensure that representatives of religious organizations are equipped, motivated, and safe for a life commitment to a faith vocation.
Alexander Jack, Daniel T. Wilcox
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Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2021 High trait self-control is generally depicted as favorable. We investigated whether this holds for social perception. Using vignettes, we tested whether a person with high self-control is 1) preferred as a partner for all or only certain social ...
Lukas Röseler +3 more
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A psychometric study of an executive function assessment instrument (TDI-FE)
BMC Psychology, 2023 Background This study aims to present and discuss the psychometric properties of executive functions, which were measured using the TDI-FE instrument.
Sérgio Kakuta Kato +8 more
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