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Attitudes to work
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Short Test Battery:
Aspiration level, Frustration tolerance,
Performance motivation, Impulsiveness/Reflexivity

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Mödling, Austria, November 2003
Copyright © by Dr.G.Schuhfried Ges.m.b.H.
Copyright © for the tests by Verlag Swets Test Services

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Klaus D. Kubinger & Johannes Ebenhöh

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Table of Contents
1. SUMMARY ........................................................................................... 3
2. DESCRIPTION OF THE TEST ................................................................... 5
2.1. Description of the Variables ........................................................................5
2.2. Test forms...................................................................................................6

3. EVALUATION ........................................................................................ 7
3.1. Objectivity ...................................................................................................7
3.2. Reliability ....................................................................................................7
3.3. Validity ........................................................................................................7
3.4. Economy.....................................................................................................8
3.5. Falsification.................................................................................................8
3.6. Fairness......................................................................................................9
3.7. Reasonableness



References: be assumed. Ebenhöh (1994), Kubinger (1995) and Frebort (2003) showed that individual characteristic values differentiated significantly between successful and less successful coworkers or trainees. seems to be a factor on its own and is not covered by the “Big Five“. Wagner-Menghin (2003) reports on the results of a study about the identification of three types of motivation. Hofman & Kubinger, 2001; Benesch, 2003; Greifes, 2003). and Ebenhöh (1996).

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