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Het artikel Enhancing Criterion-related Validity through Bottom-up Contextualization of Personality Inventories: The Construction of an Ecological Conscientiousness Scale for Ph.D. Candidates is vandaag geaccepteerd door het Amerikaanse tijdschrift Human Performance.
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Abstract
In this paper the concept of “ecological personality scales” is introduced. These are contextualized inventories with a high ecological validity. They are developed in a bottom-up or qualitative way and combine a relatively high trait specificity with a relatively high situational specificity. An ecological conscientiousness or time management scale for Ph.D. candidates was developed. It significantly predicted Ph.D. performance criteria and showed incremental validity beyond Big Five (Study 1), narrow trait and frame-of-reference scales (Study 2). These findings suggests that an ecological approach may contribute to further improving the criterion validity of personality measures.