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The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology

Validity Generalization Study of Biographical Data for Two Female Sales Job Groups

Abstract

This study was conducted to verify the stability of validity in two female sales jobs(1130 life insurance sales women and 282 female tele-marketers). After a series of item analyses were conducted for each group, 37 items and 33 items among 75 biographical items were included to the validation study, respectedly. The resulting validities and cross-validities were generalizable, regardless of whether sample size of item-keying group was large or small. But, large sample-based empirical keys showed larger cross-validity than small sample-based empirical keys. The finding in this study show that large sample-based keying of biodata scale can yield generalizable validities. And, the current findings suggest that consortium-based, multiple-organization biodata researches are needed.

keywords
biographical data, biodata, validity generalization, empirical keying, female sales job

The Korean Journal of Woman Psychology