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The historical development of the synthetic personality inventoryFocusing on the 1960s-1990s

Yu Ninomiya

Faculty of Engineering, Nippon Institute of Technology

Abstract: The purpose of this article was to summarize the development process of the

Synthetic Personality Inventory (SPI) in the point of view of a knowledge of psychology. The SPI

came into widespread use in recruitment examinations for university students and vocational

college students from the 1960s through the 1990s. There are four reasons.

Firstly, employers had to select qualified people from a large pool of applicants effectively.

Applicant numbers were increasing rapidly since university student and vocational college

student populations surged at the time. In addition, students became able to apply freely any

kind of job offer. Secondly, behavioral sciences tended to be applied to business

administration and management. Most business managers trusted the SPI, as it was founded on

applied psychology. Thirdly, some hiring staff could eliminate mentally handicapped

applicants by using the SPI results and justify it by claiming of scientific results. Finally, the SPI

could be utilized in an individual interview examination. In other words, some interviewers

could adjust the questions according to the SPI results of an applicant.

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(Keywords: career development, job performance, psychological test)

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