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Rater beliefs about others: Their effects on rating errors and rater accuracy
Author(s) -
WEXLEY KENNETH N.,
YOUTZ MARGARET A.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of occupational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0305-8107
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1985.tb00200.x
Subject(s) - psychology , inter rater reliability , personality , rating scale , clinical psychology , cognition , social psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry
This study investigated the relationship between rater characteristics, rating errors and rater accuracy. Several types of rater characteristics were studied: personality, cognitive and job‐related variables, and rater beliefs about human nature. It was hypothesized that rater beliefs would correlate significantly with both rating errors and rater accuracy and that there would be a significant relationship between accuracy and rating errors. The results supported the first hypothesis. However, rating errors and rating accuracy were not significantly correlated. Practical implications of these results are discussed.