Abstract
Ecological scales as personnel psychology’s response to situational behaviour differences: development of a conscientiousness scale for Ph.D. candidates Ecological scales as personnel psychology’s response to situational behaviour differences: development of a conscientiousness scale for Ph.D. candidates Personnel psychology aims to predict situational success criteria for specific jobs, but is restricted by the relatively low validity of traditional personality inventories. Individual behavior varies across situations and traditional inventories are constructed to cancel out these differences. To tackle this problem, this study presents the concept of ‘ecological scales’. These are contextualized questionnaires with a high ecological validity, meaning that the test outcomes correspond to daily practice. A time management scale was developed for Ph.D. candidates. The time management scale was significantly related to Ph.D. success and showed incremental validity above the Big Five. These results suggest that ecological scales could contribute to further improving the criterion-related validity of personality instruments.
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