TY - JOUR
T1 - Realistic Job Previews
T2 - Information Processing and the Accuracy of Self‐Assessment
AU - Gardner, Dianne
AU - Foo, Mee Har
AU - Hesketh, Beryl
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Two studies were undertaken examining issues relevant to the usefulness of Realistic Job Previews (RJPs) as an aid to self‐selection. The first study (N = 49) examined the validity of the implication underlying RJPs that, regardless of prior preference, people will seek more information about a task or job they expect to perform than about one that they do not expect to perform. Results were supportive and this was so for both positive and negative information. The second study (N = 96) examined whether RJPs served to increase the accuracy of self‐assessment, also an implied benefit of RJPs. Realistic Job Previews did result in more accurate self‐assessment, but only in a more difficult and attentionally demanding task. Implications for the role of RJPs and self‐assessment in a broadened social process model of selection (Herriot 1988,1989) are discussed. 1995 Australian Psychological Society
AB - Two studies were undertaken examining issues relevant to the usefulness of Realistic Job Previews (RJPs) as an aid to self‐selection. The first study (N = 49) examined the validity of the implication underlying RJPs that, regardless of prior preference, people will seek more information about a task or job they expect to perform than about one that they do not expect to perform. Results were supportive and this was so for both positive and negative information. The second study (N = 96) examined whether RJPs served to increase the accuracy of self‐assessment, also an implied benefit of RJPs. Realistic Job Previews did result in more accurate self‐assessment, but only in a more difficult and attentionally demanding task. Implications for the role of RJPs and self‐assessment in a broadened social process model of selection (Herriot 1988,1989) are discussed. 1995 Australian Psychological Society
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U2 - 10.1080/00050069508259608
DO - 10.1080/00050069508259608
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981905375
SN - 0005-0067
VL - 30
SP - 64
EP - 70
JO - Australian Psychologist
JF - Australian Psychologist
IS - 1
ER -