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Personality and performance ratings in a military training context : a study of personality predictions of interview ratings of leader potential, and military performance in a longitudinal perspective

Grimstad, Øyvind; Haugen, Espen
Master thesis
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2017
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Abstract
The use of personality assessments is increasing in popularity. However, personality

assessments are relatively seldom used as a selection method in the Norwegian

Armed Forces. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between

personality, interview evaluations of leader potential, and military performance. The

empirical research was conducted using data collected in conjunction with the

research project Lederkandidatstudien (the leader candidate study). A total number of

1026 non-commissioned officer (NCO) candidates completed a NEO-PI-3 personality

inventory, 1024 a leader potential evaluation during selection interviews, and the

military performance of 475 NCO candidates was evaluated during the spring of

2016. The results of this study showed that neuroticism was the only personality trait

significantly correlating with military performance in the Army (.218). In the same

military branch, the selection interview was found to have a significant positive

correlation with military performance (.144). Some amount of personality saturation

was found in the selection interview of non-commissioned officer training school

(NCOS), as extraversion (.197), conscientiousness (.109), and openness (.107) was

found to correlate with interview ratings of leader potential. However, the results

showed that neither interviews nor personality predicts the military performance of

NCO candidates in the Navy or Air Force. As our results indicate that personality

traits to some degree play a role in the selection of NCO candidates, we encourage

researchers to further investigate the topic of personality traits the context of military

selection and training.
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Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Leadership and Organizational Psychology - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2017
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BI Norwegian Business School

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