Interviewer Impressions Research Articles

Foodservice Management Training for Dislocated Workers: Evaluation With a Nontraditional Sample

An eight week food service management training program was prepared and presented to 24 unemployed steel workers through a retraining project sponsored by the AFL-CIO. Program impact was evaluated using participant reactions to their training experience and their post- training behavior. Selection interview impressions, peer nominations, and expressed needs for further training were related to their evaluation and later entry into foodservices. Research im plications for foodservice training programs for nontraditional students or "soft core" unemployed are discussed.

Boys who fight at home and school: family conditions influencing cross-setting consistency.

Boys who fight at home and school: family conditions influencing cross-setting consistency.

Boys who fight at home and school: Family conditions influencing cross-setting consistency.

Boys who fight at home and school: Family conditions influencing cross-setting consistency.

Prediction of child abuse: A prospective study of feasibility

Feasibility of identifying risk for child abuse prospectively was determined by interviewing 1400 expectant mothers and predicting that 273 were high risk. Nonaccidental child injuries were subsequently reported to authorities for 6% of these versus 1% of the remaining 1127 families. Prediction was only effective for 24 months following interview. Thus prenatal prediction was feasible although the rate of false positive high risk assignment would limit practical application of the interview we used. As a first step to improve prediction accuracy, a group of the 20 strongest predictors was selected from the interview by regression analysis. The correlation of these with abuse was .44 compared to .15 for the original interview. Important predictors included subjective impressions of interviewers, residency transience, untruthfulness, disturbed childhood nurture, unwanted pregnancy, and perhaps conditions that increased parent-child exposure.

Evaluation of common predictors for selection of postdoctoral dental students

Certain predictors are traditionally presumed to be reliable measures for selection of candidates for general dentistry training programs. The purpose of this study was to assess the relative value of academic standing, letters of recommendation, and personal interview impressions by comparing them with performance during training. Predictor data were collected from the application files of all postdoctoral trainees in the advanced general dentistry training program at the Eastern Dental Center of the past ten years (N = 154). However, only 102 postdoctoral students had information available for all three predictor criteria. Performance was rated subjectively on completion of training by two faculty members on a six-point rating scale. The highest correlations between predictors and performance were to academic achievement (r = 0.347). Weaker, though statistically significant, correlations were found for the personal interview (r = 0.206) and letters of recommendation (r = 0.192). Although these predictor criteria will continue to be used in the selection of candidates, administrators and selection committees must be aware of the limitations of such criteria in predicting performance.

Comparing interview impressions and test results: A new test interpretation format and procedure.

Comparing interview impressions and test results: A new test interpretation format and procedure.

Comparing interview impressions and test results: A new test interpretation format and procedure.

Comparing interview impressions and test results: A new test interpretation format and procedure.

Effects of applicant stereotypes, order, and information on interview impressions.

Effects of applicant stereotypes, order, and information on interview impressions.

How Caseworkers Decide: A Study of the Association of Selected Applicant Factors with Worker Decisions in Admission Services

This exploratory study examines one aspect of social work practice in the admission service of two comprehensive mental health centers, in terms of the effect of different items of information about applicants on the decision for further action. Tape recordings of 98 initial interviews by twelve intake workers were examined in terms of demographic charac- teristics, referral data, condition at start of interview, presenting problem, crisis situation, and diagnostic impression obtained. Decisions were grouped into six possible categories: to continue for further study, to refer to intake team, to refer to inpatient service, to refer to outpatient service, to refer elsewhere, or to defer action. Predictions of association based on case models were analyzed separately, and some patternings were ascertained.

The Accuracy of the Impressions of Survey Interviewers

The Accuracy of the Impressions of Survey Interviewers

Cues associated with accurate and inaccurate interview impressions.

(1958). Cues Associated with Accurate and Inaccurate Interview Impressions. Psychiatry: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 405-409.