A growing number of police and correctional agencies are utilizing psychologists and objective personality assessment in the evaluation of officer candidates (Behrens, 1985). Although most professionals in the field regard the addition of psychological assessment favorably, validation efforts have yielded mixed results. Excellent reviews may be found in other sources (Spielberger, 1979; Burbeck & Furnham, 1985); these reviews generally conclude that most inventories (i.e., MMPI, CPI, 16PF, and others) fail to indicate a significant relationship between objective personality assessment and job performance. / The Inwald Personality Inventory (IPI, 1980) is a relatively new instrument, designed specifically to aid in the selection of police and correctional officers, and has shown promise in early validation efforts (e.g., Inwald & Shusman, 1984a, 1984b). However, little independent validation research has focused on long-term comparisons of the MMPI (the most widely used instrument) and IFS using objective job performance measures. / In the current study, 590 road patrol and correctional candidates completed both the MMPI and IPI prior to their beginning employment. Subsequent performance measures of employment status and disciplinary infractions were gathered from official end-of-the-year evaluations. The length of employment varied for each officer; ranging from one (1) to 52 months. Based on the performance evaluations, each officer was assigned to one of four performance groups for analyses. / Results of the analyses indicated that the MMPI was not significantly related to subsequent job performance of either the road patrol or the correctional officer samples. The IPI was not found to be significantly related to performance for the road patrol sample, although it was found to be significant in predicting performance for the correctional officers. / Ten IPI scales were significantly different between the correctional officer groups. Stepwise Discriminant Analysis revealed that seven of the IPI scales were able to correctly classify 53 percent of the correctional officers. Implications for further research are discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-05, Section: A, page: 1690. / Major Professor: Harman Burck. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76403 |
| Contributors | Griffith, Tracy Lee., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 113 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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