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PERSONALITY MEASURES AND BIODATA: EVIDENCE REGARDING THEIR INCREMENTAL PREDICTIVE VALUE IN THE LIFE INSURANCE INDUSTRY
Author(s) -
MCMANUS MARGARET A.,
KELLY MARY L.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1999.tb01817.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , extraversion and introversion , incremental validity , predictive validity , task (project management) , big five personality traits , insurance industry , scale (ratio) , set (abstract data type) , social psychology , value (mathematics) , applied psychology , test validity , psychometrics , developmental psychology , actuarial science , management , computer science , machine learning , business , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , programming language
This study examines the extent to which a theoretically based set of personality measures can add incremental validity to an existing biodata instrument in terms of predicting both traditional (task) and expanded (contextual) dimensions of performance in the life insurance industry. Four of the Big Five measures of personality predicted contextual performance while just the Extraversion scale predicted task performance. This study demonstrates that personality measures can provide significant incremental prediction of contextual performance over biodata, and vice versa.