Michael J Zickar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5790183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Zickar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Zickar |
| SIGNATURE | ZICKAR M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1435-0533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The rise and fall of Katherine Blackford’s character analysis
Dr. Katherine Blackford's writings on physiognomy-based character analysis were popular in the business community during the period roughly from 1914 to 1925. I document the rise of the Blackford System of character analysis and discuss how she gained influence in the business community. I outline how industrial psychologists collected data to disprove her theories and I argue that those efforts that attempted to delineate evidence-based practice…
The development and validation of an updated job search behavior scale
Innovations in Sampling
Technology has changed the way that organizational researchers obtain participants for their research studies. Although technology has facilitated the collection of large quantities of data through online platforms, it has also highlighted potential data quality issues for many of our samples. In this article, we review different sampling techniques, including convenience, purposive, probability-based, and snowball sampling. We highlight strength…
Measurement Development and Evaluation
Psychological measurement is at the heart of organizational research. I review recent practices in the area of measurement development and evaluation, detailing best practice recommendations in both of these areas. Throughout the article, I stress that theory and discovery should guide scale development and that statistical tools, although they play a crucial role, should be chosen to best evaluate the theoretical underpinnings of scales as well …
A systematic comparison of three sadism measures and their ability to explain workplace mistreatment over and above the dark triad
An IRT Examination of the Psychometric Functioning of Negatively Worded Personality Items
This study compared the functioning of positively and negatively worded personality items using item response theory. In Study 1, word pairs from the Goldberg Adjective Checklist were analyzed using the Graded Response Model. Across subscales, negatively worded items produced comparatively higher difficulty and lower discrimination parameters than positively worded items and yielded almost no information. Model fit was examined for two forms of e…
Understanding the Relation Between Attitude Involvement and Response Latitude Using Item Response Theory
Adapting the original latitude of acceptance concept to Likert-type surveys, response latitudes are defined as the range of graded response options a person is willing to endorse. Response latitudes were expected to relate to attitude involvement such that high involvement was linked to narrow latitudes (the result of selective, careful responding) and low involvement was linked to wide latitudes (the result of disinterested, careless responding)…
Some Common Myths About Centering Predictor Variables in Moderated Multiple Regression and Polynomial Regression
Additive transformations are often offered as a remedy for the common problem of collinearity in moderated regression and polynomial regression analysis. As the authors demonstrate in this article, mean-centering reduces nonessential collinearity but not essential collinearity. Therefore, in most cases, mean-centering of predictors does not accomplish its intended goal. In this article, the authors discuss and explain, through derivation of equat…
The Influence of Dimensionality on Parameter Estimation Accuracy in the Generalized Graded Unfolding Model
The generalized graded unfolding model (GGUM) is an ideal point model of responding that is consistent with the Thurstonian theory of respondent behavior. Ideal point models have recently generated interest in the realms of attitude and personality assessment. One unclear aspect of applying ideal point models is the influence of multidimensionality on GGUM item and person parameters estimation accuracy. Using simulated data, the authors tested th…
A history of the early days of personality testing in American industry
Objective personality testing began with Woodworth's Personal Data Sheet in 1917. That test was developed to identify soldiers prone to nervous breakdowns during enemy bombardment in World War I (WWI). Soon after, many competing personality tests were developed for use in industry. Many of these tests, like Woodworth's, focused on the construct of employee maladjustment and were deemed important in screening out applicants who would create workpl…
An examination of differential item and test functioning across personality judgments
An Analysis of Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s Indifference to Labor Unions in the United States
Although many writers have bemoaned psychology’s indifference toward labor unions, there has been little critical analysis of why this indifference exists. In this article, several explanations that have been offered to explain this indifference are identified and evaluated. These explanations are: (i) limited access to relevant data; (ii) limited financial rewards;(iii) early psychologists’ attitudes toward unions; and (iv) the failure to apprec…
Developing an Interpretation of Item Parameters for Personality Items
The research in this article attempted to relate content features of personality items to item parameter estimates from Muraki’s partial credit model. Goldberg’s Adjective Checklist was administered to 329 participants to calibrate item parameters. These parameters were then related to item ratings of social desirability, item subtlety, frequency of misunderstanding, and word usage frequency indexes. Subtle items tended to have lower discriminati…
A history of the early days of personality testing in American industry
Objective personality testing began with Woodworth's Personal Data Sheet in 1917. That test was developed to identify soldiers prone to nervous breakdowns during enemy bombardment in World War I (WWI). Soon after, many competing personality tests were developed for use in industry. Many of these tests, like Woodworth's, focused on the construct of employee maladjustment and were deemed important in screening out applicants who would create workpl…
An Analysis of Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s Indifference to Labor Unions in the United States
Although many writers have bemoaned psychology’s indifference toward labor unions, there has been little critical analysis of why this indifference exists. In this article, several explanations that have been offered to explain this indifference are identified and evaluated. These explanations are: (i) limited access to relevant data; (ii) limited financial rewards;(iii) early psychologists’ attitudes toward unions; and (iv) the failure to apprec…
A systematic comparison of three sadism measures and their ability to explain workplace mistreatment over and above the dark triad
Developing an Interpretation of Item Parameters for Personality Items
The research in this article attempted to relate content features of personality items to item parameter estimates from Muraki’s partial credit model. Goldberg’s Adjective Checklist was administered to 329 participants to calibrate item parameters. These parameters were then related to item ratings of social desirability, item subtlety, frequency of misunderstanding, and word usage frequency indexes. Subtle items tended to have lower discriminati…
An Analysis of Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s Indifference to Labor Unions in the United States
Although many writers have bemoaned psychology’s indifference toward labor unions, there has been little critical analysis of why this indifference exists. In this article, several explanations that have been offered to explain this indifference are identified and evaluated. These explanations are: (i) limited access to relevant data; (ii) limited financial rewards;(iii) early psychologists’ attitudes toward unions; and (iv) the failure to apprec…
An examination of differential item and test functioning across personality judgments
A history of the early days of personality testing in American industry
Objective personality testing began with Woodworth's Personal Data Sheet in 1917. That test was developed to identify soldiers prone to nervous breakdowns during enemy bombardment in World War I (WWI). Soon after, many competing personality tests were developed for use in industry. Many of these tests, like Woodworth's, focused on the construct of employee maladjustment and were deemed important in screening out applicants who would create workpl…
The Influence of Dimensionality on Parameter Estimation Accuracy in the Generalized Graded Unfolding Model
The generalized graded unfolding model (GGUM) is an ideal point model of responding that is consistent with the Thurstonian theory of respondent behavior. Ideal point models have recently generated interest in the realms of attitude and personality assessment. One unclear aspect of applying ideal point models is the influence of multidimensionality on GGUM item and person parameters estimation accuracy. Using simulated data, the authors tested th…
Some Common Myths About Centering Predictor Variables in Moderated Multiple Regression and Polynomial Regression
Additive transformations are often offered as a remedy for the common problem of collinearity in moderated regression and polynomial regression analysis. As the authors demonstrate in this article, mean-centering reduces nonessential collinearity but not essential collinearity. Therefore, in most cases, mean-centering of predictors does not accomplish its intended goal. In this article, the authors discuss and explain, through derivation of equat…
Understanding the Relation Between Attitude Involvement and Response Latitude Using Item Response Theory
Adapting the original latitude of acceptance concept to Likert-type surveys, response latitudes are defined as the range of graded response options a person is willing to endorse. Response latitudes were expected to relate to attitude involvement such that high involvement was linked to narrow latitudes (the result of selective, careful responding) and low involvement was linked to wide latitudes (the result of disinterested, careless responding)…
An IRT Examination of the Psychometric Functioning of Negatively Worded Personality Items
This study compared the functioning of positively and negatively worded personality items using item response theory. In Study 1, word pairs from the Goldberg Adjective Checklist were analyzed using the Graded Response Model. Across subscales, negatively worded items produced comparatively higher difficulty and lower discrimination parameters than positively worded items and yielded almost no information. Model fit was examined for two forms of e…
Measurement Development and Evaluation
Psychological measurement is at the heart of organizational research. I review recent practices in the area of measurement development and evaluation, detailing best practice recommendations in both of these areas. Throughout the article, I stress that theory and discovery should guide scale development and that statistical tools, although they play a crucial role, should be chosen to best evaluate the theoretical underpinnings of scales as well …
A systematic comparison of three sadism measures and their ability to explain workplace mistreatment over and above the dark triad
The development and validation of an updated job search behavior scale
Innovations in Sampling
Technology has changed the way that organizational researchers obtain participants for their research studies. Although technology has facilitated the collection of large quantities of data through online platforms, it has also highlighted potential data quality issues for many of our samples. In this article, we review different sampling techniques, including convenience, purposive, probability-based, and snowball sampling. We highlight strength…
The rise and fall of Katherine Blackford’s character analysis
Dr. Katherine Blackford's writings on physiognomy-based character analysis were popular in the business community during the period roughly from 1914 to 1925. I document the rise of the Blackford System of character analysis and discuss how she gained influence in the business community. I outline how industrial psychologists collected data to disprove her theories and I argue that those efforts that attempted to delineate evidence-based practice…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Psychometrics (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Item response theory (5 works) · Personality (5 works) · Personality Traits and Psychology (5 works) · Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (5 works)