Measuring distinct social skills via multiple speed assessments: A behavior-focused personnel selection approach.

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in European Journal of Psychological Assessment on Dec 16 2021 (see record 2022-17114-001). The article entitled “Measuring distinct social skills via multiple speed assessments – A behavior-focused personnel selection approach” by Simon M. Breil, Boris Forthmann, & Mitja D. Back (https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000657) has now been published as an open access article with “© The Author(s)” and under a CC BY 4.0 license. The following funding information has been added: Funding — Open Access publication enabled by University of Münster.] Social skills (e.g., persuading others, showing compassion, staying calm) are of key importance in work and education settings. Accordingly, the goal of many selection processes is to identify candidates who excel in desired skills. For this, high-fidelity simulations such as assessment centers (ACs) are regarded as ideal procedures because they can be used to evoke, observe, and evaluate candidates’ actual behavior. However, research has repeatedly shown that observed performance differences in ACs are not sufficiently driven by the specific skill dimensions that are defined for assessment. Building on multiple speed assessments and incorporating insights from behavioral personality science, we offer an alternative approach for the reliable and valid assessment of distinct social skills. We hereby (a) selected skills on the basis of a bottom-up analysis of...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research