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Differential Prediction of Immigrant Versus Majority Group Training Performance Using Cognitive Ability and Personality Measures
Author(s) -
Te Nijenhuis Jan,
Van Der Flier Henk
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2389.00133
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , personality , aptitude , cognition , immigration , applied psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , history , archaeology , biology
There are very few studies of the differential prediction of work and training performance for immigrant groups in the Netherlands. Scores on the General Aptitude Test Battery, an intelligence test, and the Amsterdamse Biografische Vragenlijst (ABV), a frequently used Dutch personality test, and training data for 78 immigrant and 78 Dutch trainee truck drivers were collected. Lautenschlager and Mendoza’s (1986) method of step‐down hierarchical regression analysis was used to check for bias in the prediction of training results. Some predictor‐criterion combinations showed differential prediction, especially with less cognitive and less objective criteria. The results with respect to the intelligence test appear to be in line with the findings of the US literature.