Construction and Validation of Personality Characteristics Questionnaire of Iran Traffic Police

Aim: Police is one of the most important organizations in the countries that has missions and important tasks. The scientific pre-employment selection of candidates ensures the selection of suitable people and access to the goals of the organization. The purpose of this study was to construct and validate the personality characteristics questionnaire of traffic police.
This 5-step research was carried out with a mixed method of exploratory sequential designe on all of the staff and police commanders of the Iran and knowledgeable psychologists in this field in 2015. Using cluster-random sampling, 380 samples from traffic polices participated in the final stage of the questionnaire. NEO personality inventory, job motivation questionnaire, organizational commitment scale, job performance questionnaire and job satisfaction scale were used to data collection. The data were analyzed using simple correlation, multivariable stepwise regression, and also factor analysis in AMOS 23 software.
Four factor questionnaire of personality characteristics of traffic police was constract in 75 questions and all 4 factors as traits (β=0.91), psychosocial skills (β=0.85), professional skills (β=0.66) and attitudes (β=0.70) with 95% confidence, were subscales of personality characteristics of traffic police (p = 0.001). Reliability and validity of the questionnaire were at an acceptable level.
Personality characteristics questionnaire of traffic police has a good reliability and validity for pre-employment selection in traffic police.