ARE WE VALIDATING MORE BUT PUBLISHING LESS? (THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION ON PUBLISHED VALIDATION RESEARCH–AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION)
分析了1960至1979年间《应用心理学杂志》和《人事心理学》上发表的效度研究，发现验证研究数量绝对和相对下降，但效度系数大小无显著变化，这些变化与政府干预增加有关。
Criterion‐related validity studies published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology between 1960 and 1979 are examined to determine what changes have occurred in the volume of published research, the types of research design, occupations investigated, predictors and criteria used, and obtained validities. The major changes in the published research are both an absolute and relative decline in the volume of reported validation research, an increase in the average sample size, a decline in the proportion of studies utilizing supervisory rating criteria, a de‐emphasis of aptitude tests as predictors, and a tendency towards greater use of predictive research designs. However, no significant change has occurred in the absolute magnitude of reported validity coefficients during this 20 year period nor in the types of occupations being investigated. These changes are interpreted in terms of increasing governmental intervention in employment selection during the last two decades.