Testing the portuguese version of ANPS-s and its utility for professional selection processes

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Maria Teresa Silva Féria de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15818
• topic: Affective Neuroscience; ANPS-s; Contextual performance; Personality assessment; Organizational citizenship behaviour; Scale’s validation; Comportamento organizacional; Teorias da personalidade; Cidadania; Avaliação do desempenho

Personality assessment allows us to collect important data for contextual performance prediction. Therefore personality measures are seen as useful tools in professional selection processes. Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) is able to assess personality considering six basic emotional systems: PLAY, SEEK, CARE, SADNESS, FEAR, and ANGER. During the first stage of this research we have analysed factorial and convergent validities to ensure the psychometric quality of the scale. Then, in a second stage, we have continued studying ANPS with concurrent and incremental validities for contextual performance. We have built an online questionnaire combining 4 instruments: ANPS-s, 11-item short version of Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Mini-IPIP, and the Portuguese scale of organization citizenship behaviour (OCB), a proxy measure for contextual performance. For the first research stage, we have considered 442 valid respondents. For concurrent and incremental validity we kept 341 elements because professional experience was required to answer about organizational citizenship behaviour. Our results corroborate ANPS-s validation. However, it was necessary to discard some ANPS-s items. As regards concurrent validity, SEEK system can be seen as a valid predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour. Considering incremental validity, there is evidence to consider the existence of specific ANPS-s variance for organization citizenship behaviour prediction. Our study intends to be a first contribution to the study of basic personality characteristics in professional selection processes. We suggest some important modifications to be introduced in future researches. We also present the relevance of considering the interaction between these basic processes and emotion regulation processes in future researches.