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PsychSol
publishes key paper in Personnel Psychology |
| Dr Colin Gill and Professor Gerard Hodgkinson have published a benchmark paper setting out how personality assessments will be developed in the future. The article “Development and validation of the Five Factor Model Questionnaire (FFMQ): An adjectival-based personality instrument for use in occupational settings” appears in Personnel Psychology (2007, 60, 731-736) and explains the development process and validation of the FFMQ personality test that is commercially available as the Persona personality assessment. | |
| The Personnel Psychology paper reports five studies, with multiple samples and across a range of different organizations and occupational contexts. The studies show how the Five Factor Model Questionnaire is suitable for use with individuals drawn from the widest possible breadth of ability levels, educational backgrounds, and cultural and socio-economic groupings. At every research stage particular emphasis is given to developing a questionnaire that does not unfairly discriminate against any group and it is made clear how to avoid the biases that are present in many conventional questionnaires. | |
| Colin and Gerard also report the findings of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, showing how the scales that any personality inventory claims to measure should have a consistent factor structure. The FFMQ scales of Agreeableness, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious and Openness are all shown to be conceptually distinct and the factor structure of the questionnaire is readily replicated across samples. The scales also demonstrate good reliability (internal consistency and temporal stability) and convergent and discriminant validity with respect another recognized measure of the Five Factor Model. | |
| Finally, a large validation study shows that the new FFMQ personality scales are differentially correlated with independent ratings of overall job proficiency across three occupationally distinct samples. This demonstrates that the FFMQ is suitable for use across different job families and job types and has good levels of predictive validity. | |
| The Five Factor Model Questionnaire is freely available to researchers and for use in some commercial applications. | |
| Reference : Gill, C. M. and Hodgkinson, G. P. (2007) Development and validation of the Five Factor Model Questionnaire (FFMQ): An adjectival-based personality instrument for use in occupational settings, Personnel Psychology, 60, 731-766. | |
| If you would like further information about how Psychological Solutions can help you and your organisation, or if you would like to participate in a research project then please contact us. | |
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