Attitude toward invasion of privacy in the personnel selection process and job applicant demographic and personality correlates.

Explored the attitudes of subgroups of the job applicant population toward invasion of privacy in the selection process. Attitude toward privacy invasion and personality correlates was also examined. Ss consisted of 1,392 job applicants. Attitudes were measured by an invasion of privacy questionnaire, a 66-item instrument factor-analyzed into 5 component factors. Although many of the correlations between demographic and invasion of privacy factors were significant, they were not large enough to account for much meaningful variance. Personality correlates suggested a set of variables which might merit further investigation. (16 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)