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APPLICANT REACTIONS TO SELECTION: DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELECTION PROCEDURAL JUSTICE SCALE (SPJS)
Author(s) -
BAUER TALYA N.,
TRUXILLO DONALD M.,
SANCHEZ RUDOLPH J.,
CRAIG JANE M.,
FERRARA PHILIP,
CAMPION MICHAEL A.
Publication year - 2001
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.1744-6570.2001.tb00097.x
Subject(s) - psychology , generalizability theory , officer , scale (ratio) , procedural justice , exploratory factor analysis , selection (genetic algorithm) , social psychology , economic justice , sample (material) , applied psychology , psychometrics , law , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , political science , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , computer science , perception
This paper describes research that fills a void in the applicant reactions literature by developing a comprehensive measure of Gilliland's (1993) procedural justice rules, called the Selection Procedural Justice Scale (SPJS). Five separate phases of scale development were conducted. In Phase 1 we generated and refined the items. For Phase 2 we reduced the items through exploratory factor analysis using data gathered from 330 applicants for the job of court officer and found higher‐order factors consistent with Greenberg (1993a, 1993b). In Phase 3 we confirmed the factor structure using a separate sample of 242 applicants and trainees for the court officer job. In Phase 4 we assessed the initial convergent and divergent validity of the scale. In Phase 5 we tested the generalizability of these items in general and for those receiving positive and negative selection outcomes using 2 student samples. The results demonstrated the usefulness of the SPJS in differentiating each of Gilliland's procedural justice rules and relating them to outcomes included in his model of applicant reactions. A copy of the SPJS is included in the Appendix.