TY - JOUR PY - 1980// TI - Differential predictability of females and males JO - Sex roles A1 - Mellon, Phyllis A1 - Schmitt, Neal A1 - Bylenga, Carol SP - 173 EP - 177 VL - 6 IS - 2 N2 - This study examined the existence of sex differences in validity coefficients from a variety of different types of tests. It was found that female validities significantly exceeded male validities by .04 correlational units. When the validities were broken down by predictor categories, no significant differences were observed between males and females on either personality or high school background measures; and female validities exceeded male validities on tests of abstract reasoning, clerical abilities, information, mathematical abilities, verbal abilities, and composite scores from multiple tests. Implications of these findings are discussed.

LA - en SN - 0360-0025 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00287340 ID - ref1 ER -