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Content Validity Does Matter for the Criterion-Related Validity of Personality Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

H. Kristl Davison  and
Mark N. Bing
H. Kristl Davison*
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
Mark N. Bing
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
*
E-mail: kdavison@bus.olemiss.edu, Address: Department of Management, School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 501 - 503
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Department of Management, School of Business Administration, University of Mississippi

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