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A Meta-Analytic Study of General Mental Ability Validity for Different Occupations in the European Community (2003)
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| Author | Salgado, Jesús F. Erson, Neil Moscoso, Silvia Bertua, Cristina Fruyt, Filip De Rolland, Jean Pierre |
| Abstract | A comprehensive meta-analysis of the validity of general mental ability (GMA) measures across 12 occupational categories in the European Community (EC) is presented. GMA measures showed that there is validity generalization and large operational validities for job performance and training success in 11 occupational groups. Results also showed that job complexity moderated the magnitude of the opera-tional validity of GMA tests across three levels of job complexity: low, medium, and high. In general, results were similar to those found in the United States, although the European findings showed a slightly larger magnitude of operational validity in some cases. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings for personnel selection are discussed. In the past 80 years, hundreds of criterion-related validity stud-ies have been carried out across the world, relating general mental ability (GMA) measures to work-related criteria. Following Schmidt (2002), GMA is defined effectively in this research as any measure that combines two, three, or more specific aptitudes, or any measure that includes a variety of items measuring specific abilities (e.g., verbal, numerical, spatial). Consequently, the ob-served validity of GMA for a specific study may be achieved using an omnibus GMA test (e.g., The Wonderlic Personnel Test, Otis |
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| Journal | Journal of Applied Psychology |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | European Community General Mental Ability Validity Meta-analytic Study Different Occupation General Mental Ability Job Complexity Omnibus Gma Test Opera-tional Validity Comprehensive Meta-analysis Occupational Category Job Performance Ob-served Validity Specific Study Training Success Occupational Group Wonderlic Personnel Test Specific Ability European Finding Practical Implication Large Operational Validity Operational Validity Personnel Selection Work-related Criterion Specific Aptitude Criterion-related Validity Stud-ies Validity Generalization United State Gma Test |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
