SAGE Journal Articles

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Article 1: Scroggins, W.A., Thomas, S.L. & Morris, J.A. (2008). Psychological Testing in Personnel Selection, Part I: A Century of Psychological Testing. Public Personnel Management, 37 (1), 99-109. DOI:  10.1177/009102600803700107

[This article focuses on the historical use of psychological tests in selecting and hiring of employees.  The article emphasizes personality testing and how industrial/organizational psychologists helped influence the role testing has in the scientific selection of employees.]

Questions to Consider:

  1. Why had many industrial psychologists traditionally rejected the use of personality testing while many human resources manager maintain an optimistic and enduring faith in the ability of them to discriminate between good and poor job candidates?
  2. Discuss how military psychology and the role of psychological services were considered essential to the nation’s defense efforts during World War II?
  3. Describe three ways in which the use of personality tests in employment selection is considered controversial?

 

Article 2: Wilson, D. (2014). Quantifying the quiet epidemic: Diagnosing dementia in late 20th-century Britain.  History of the Human Sciences, 27 (5), 126-146. DOI: 10.1177/0952695114536715

[The key role that rating scales played in the advancement of diagnosing dementia in late-20th century Britain, as well as new controversies that arose as a result of  using a technical measure for diagnosing, are described in this article.]

Questions to Consider:

  1. Between 1940 and 1960, what was the primary difference in the predominant classification of mental disorders in the elderly between the British and the U.S.?
  2. Discuss how the link between psychiatric assessment and post-mortem analysis of dementia in the "Newcastle study" was used to support the use of rating scales in diagnosing dementia.
  3. Describe how diagnostic rating scales, like the BDS, were crucial in linking professional issues, e.g. clinical training, with the political components of funding and planning of health services for the treatment of dementia.