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      Structured behavioral interview as a legal guarantee for ensuring equal employment opportunities for women: A meta-analysis Translated title: La entrevista conductual estructurada como garantía legal que asegura la igualdad de oportunidades laborales para la mujer: meta-análisis

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          Abstract Equal employment opportunities for women are a legal requirement in many legal environments, including the United States (US) and European Union (EU) legislations. In this context, indirect discrimination in the access to jobs is an illegal practice. For this reason, personnel selection procedures must be fair for protected-by-law groups. Specifically, gender discrimination is the focus of research on employment interviews. This article presents a meta-analysis of gender differences in the scores in structured behavioral interviews (SBI). A database was created consisting of studies conducted with real candidates and employees. Psychometric meta-analysis methods were applied. The results showed that the SBI is fair for women and men and does not show evidence of adverse impact and indirect discrimination. Implications for the practice of personnel selection are discussed and future research is suggested.

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          Resumen La igualdad de oportunidades laborales para la mujer es un requisito legal en muchos marcos legales, como la legislación de Estados Unidos o de la Unión Europea. En este contexto, la discriminación indirecta en el acceso al trabajo es una práctica ilegal. Este es el motivo por el que los procedimientos de selección de personal deben ser justos para los grupos protegidos por ley. En concreto, la discriminación de género es el centro de investigación en las entrevistas de empleo. Este artículo presenta un metaanálisis de las diferencias de género en las puntuaciones de las entrevistas conductuales estructuradas (ECE). Se elaboró una base de datos compuesta de estudios realizados con aspirantes y empleados reales, aplicándose métodos metaanalíticos psicométricos. Los resultados indican que la ECE es justa para mujeres y hombres, no habiendo señales de efectos negativos ni de discriminación indirecta. Se comentan las consecuencias para la práctica en selección de personal, a la vez que se recomienda la necesidad de investigación futura.

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              Beyond alpha: an empirical examination of the effects of different sources of measurement error on reliability estimates for measures of individual differences constructs.

              On the basis of an empirical study of measures of constructs from the cognitive domain, the personality domain, and the domain of affective traits, the authors of this study examine the implications of transient measurement error for the measurement of frequently studied individual differences variables. The authors clarify relevant reliability concepts as they relate to transient error and present a procedure for estimating the coefficient of equivalence and stability (L. J. Cronbach, 1947), the only classical reliability coefficient that assesses all 3 major sources of measurement error (random response, transient, and specific factor errors). The authors conclude that transient error exists in all 3 trait domains and is especially large in the domain of affective traits. Their findings indicate that the nearly universal use of the coefficient of equivalence (Cronbach's alpha; L. J. Cronbach, 1951), which fails to assess transient error, leads to overestimates of reliability and undercorrections for biases due to measurement error.
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                Journal
                ejpalc
                The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
                The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
                Sociedad Española de Psicología Jurídica y Forense; Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                1889-1861
                1989-4007
                June 2017
                : 9
                : 1
                : 15-23
                Affiliations
                [1] Galicia orgnameUniversidad de Santiago de Compostela Spain
                Article
                S1889-18612017000100015 S1889-1861(17)00900100015
                10.1016/j.ejpal.2016.03.002
                2e98f3e7-e62a-4c9e-b802-dd1b28b9389d

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 22 February 2016
                : 20 March 2016
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 95, Pages: 9
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                Discriminación indirecta,Adverse impact,Legal environment,Igualdad de oportunidades laborales,Selección de personal,Personnel selection,Efectos negativos,Behavioral interview,Metaanálisis,Equal employment opportunities,Meta-analysis,Entrevista conductual,Marco legal,Indirect discrimination

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