A contemporary look at the relationship between general cognitive ability and job performance.
verifiedrich profile · Journal of Applied Psychology · 2024
Sackett, Paul R.; Demeke, Saron; Bazian, Isaac M.; Griebie, Anne Marie; Priest, Reed; Kuncel, Nathan R.
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general mental ability gma → task performance
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general mental ability gma predicts overall job performance
general mental ability gma predicts task performance
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of .11. While this is a much smaller estimate than the .51 value offered by Schmidt and Hunter (1998), that value has been critiqued by Sackett et al. (2022), who offered a mean corrected validity of .31 based on integrating findings from prior meta-analyses of 20th century data. We obtain a lower value (.22) for 21st century data. We conclude that GCA is related to job performance, but our estimate of the magnitude of the relationship is lower than prior estimates. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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supports “…study, along with others that have examined the relationship between cognitive ability and job performance, has focused on the general factor (e.g., Sackett et al., 2024), but Nye et al, (2022) showed that the narrow cognitive abilities least correlated with GCA added significant incremental…”
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