Individual Performance Assessment and Individual Differences

Compiled by Dr. A. David Mangelsdorff. Copyright © 1998-2002, A. David Mangelsdorff. All Rights Reserved.
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Demographics (biographical)

  • age, gender, educational level, ability, experience
  • generational values

    Personality

  • The Personality Project
  • Personality Theories
  • Attittudes, Aptitudes, Abilities of American Youth
  • state vs. trait

    Addressing National Security Needs

  • measurement and classification of human abilities
  • ability-job fit (occupational classification)
  • National Academy of Science: Enhancing Human Performance
  • Demographics
  • Foreign born
  • Group Literacy Testing
  • Cognitive Skills
  • Army Alpha (5 versions for literates) Army Beta
  • Armed Services Vocational Aptitutde Battery (ASVAB)
  • adjustment to military life
  • American Soldier Series
  • training effectiveness
  • training leaders
  • selection of special occupational groups (pilots)
  • unit cohesion surveys and readiness
  • Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Programs
  • Personality-Job fit model (Holland)
  • Why soldiers fight

    Personality Scales

    Descriptive Assessments

  • Boros Institute of Mental Measurement
  • 16 PF [personality factors] (Cattell)
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: 4 characteristics, 16 types
  • Big Five Model
  • Authoritarian Personality [F scale] (Adorno)
  • Locus of Control (Rotter)
  • Machiavellianism (Christie and Geis)
  • Type A Behavior (Friedman and Roseman)
  • Hardiness (Kobasa, Bartone)
  • Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)
  • Sensation seeking (Zuckerman)

    Diagnostic Assessments

  • Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory [MMPI] (Hathaway and McKinley) 10 clinical, 3 validity scales
  • Projective tests
  • Anger Expression Inventory (Spielberger)

    References

  • Daniel Druckman, Jerome E. Singer, and Harold Van Cott (Editors) (1997). Enhancing Organizational Performance

  • Handbook of Military Psychology. London: John Wiley Ltd. (1991).

  • Military Psychology: Special Issue on Military Cohesion. Mahwah, N.J.:
    Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1999).

  • Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press and
    American Psychological Association (2000).

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