Longitudinal field investigation of the moderating and mediating effects of self-efficacy on the relationship between training and newcomer adjustment
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A longitudinal field study examined the moderating and mediating effects of self-efficacy on the relationship between training and the adjustment of newcomers during their 1st year of employment. The results provided some support for the hypothesis that initial self-efficacy moderates the relationship between training and adjustment. Training was more strongly related to posttraining self-efficacy, ability to cope, job performance, and intention to quit the profession for newcomers with low levels of initial self-efficacy. Some support was also found for the hypothesis that posttraining self-efficacy mediates the relationship between training and adjustment; however, evidence of complete mediation was found only for ability to cope. Posttraining self-efficacy partially mediated the relationships between training and job satisfaction, organizational and professional commitment, and intention to quit the organization and the profession. Research and practical implications of these findings for the training and the socialization of newcomers are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1995
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Moderating Effects of Decision-Making Information- Processing Job Dimensions on Test Validities
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Selection test data and job dimension data serves as an analysis point over more than one hundred different jobs. For every job, test validities were statisfically adjusted for range restriction. Correlations were made for three information-processing, decision-making levels. Those levels basically adjusted the validity of the intelligence examination, verbal ability examination, and a numerical ability examination. Manually related job dimensions did not have any significant impact from moderation techniques. Findings are discussed in light of their impact on a validity generalization model. Tables of intercorrelated questionnaire data are included.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1983
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Labor market dimensions as predictors of the reenlistment decisions of military personnel
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Labor market variables (e.g., unemployment statistics) and perceptual measures of employment opportunity (e.g., perceived occupational demand) were used to predict the reenlistment decisions of 402 U.S. Air Force enlistees. With logistic regression analysis, 3 significant predictors of reenlistment were isolated. A combination of perceptual and objective job availability measures provided the best prediction of the reenlistment criterion. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1996
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