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The Criterion-Related Validity of Integrity Tests: An Updated Meta-Analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Applied Psychology, May 2012
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Title
The Criterion-Related Validity of Integrity Tests: An Updated Meta-Analysis
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Journal of Applied Psychology, May 2012
DOI 10.1037/a0021196
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Abstract

Integrity tests have become a prominent predictor within the selection literature over the past few decades. However, some researchers have expressed concerns about the criterion-related validity evidence for such tests because of a perceived lack of methodological rigor within this literature, as well as a heavy reliance on unpublished data from test publishers. In response to these concerns, we meta-analyzed 104 studies (representing 134 independent samples), which were authored by a similar proportion of test publishers and non-publishers, whose conduct was consistent with professional standards for test validation, and whose results were relevant to the validity of integrity-specific scales for predicting individual work behavior. Overall mean observed validity estimates and validity estimates corrected for unreliability in the criterion (respectively) were .12 and .15 for job performance, .13 and .16 for training performance, .26 and .32 for counterproductive work behavior, and .07 and .09 for turnover. Although data on restriction of range were sparse, illustrative corrections for indirect range restriction did increase validities slightly (e.g., from .15 to .18 for job performance). Several variables appeared to moderate relations between integrity tests and the criteria. For example, corrected validities for job performance criteria were larger when based on studies authored by integrity test publishers (.27) than when based on studies from non-publishers (.12). In addition, corrected validities for counterproductive work behavior criteria were larger when based on self-reports (.42) than when based on other-reports (.11) or employee records (.15).

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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 1%
Germany 4 1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 342 95%

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Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 93 26%
Student > Master 56 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 45 13%
Researcher 29 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 21 6%
Other 64 18%
Unknown 51 14%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 196 55%
Business, Management and Accounting 64 18%
Social Sciences 20 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 1%
Arts and Humanities 4 1%
Other 16 4%
Unknown 54 15%
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#9,868,087
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#1,626
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#63,026
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Applied Psychology
#6
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