Measuring achievement striving via a situational judgment test: The value of additional context. Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 36 (2), 157-168 — vol. 36, n. 2 (August 2020) · 2020

The study extends personality and situational judgment test (SJT) research by using an SJT to measure achievement striving in a contextualized manner. Employed students responded to the achievement striving SJT, traditional personality scales, and workplace performance measures. The SJT was internally consistent, items loaded on a single factor, and scores converged with other measures of achievement striving. The SJT provided incremental criterion-related validity for the performance criteria beyond less-contextualized achievement striving measures. Findings suggest that achievement- related work scenarios may provide additional criterion-relevant information not captured by measures that are less contextualized.