Contents of Volume 69 Part | March 1996 1 An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the concept 5.2 Occupational Personality Questionnaire P. Barrett, P. Kline, L. Paltiel and H. J. Eysenck An evaluation of some psychometric parameters: A response to Barrett, Kline, Paltiel and Eysenck Helen Baron The relationship between ipsatized and normative measures of personality D. Bartram On the factoring and interpretation of ipsative data S. J. Closs Strengths and limitations of ipsative measurement Helen Baron Is job satisfaction U-shaped in age? Andrew Clark, Andrew Oswald and Peter Warr Attributional style as a personality factor in insurance sales performance in the UK PhilipJ .C orr and Jeffrey A. Gray Taking work home: A study of daily fluctuations in work stressors, effects on moods and impacts on marital partners Fiona Jones and Ben (C) Fletcher Methodological moderators in validating biographical data in personnel selection Thomas Bliesener Part 2 June 1996 121 Good health — Is it worth it? Mood states, physical well-beingj,o b satisfaction and absenteeism in members and non-members of a British corporate health and fitness club AmandaJ . Daley and Gaynor Parfitt The interactive effects of participation and outcome favourability on turnover intentions and evaluations of supervisors Nace Magner, Robert B. Welker and Gary G. Johnson Gender differences in managers’ causal explanations for their work performance: A study in two organizations Patrice Rosenthal, David Guest and Riccardo Peccei The demands-—control model of job strain: A more specific test Toby D. Wall, Paul R. Jackson, Sean Mullarkey and Sharon K. Parker Criterion and construct validation of an assessment centre David Chan Gender and equal opportunities in public sector organizations John Kremer, Adrian Hallmark, Jennifer Cleland, Vilinda Ross, Jan Duncan, Bill Lindsay and Sinead Berwick The job characteristics of computing and non-computing work activities John W. Medcof 213 Book reviews 3 September 1996 Career success: An assessment of a gender-specific model Tuvia Melamed Sex similarity, quality of the employment interview and recruiters’ evaluation of actual applicants Laura M. Graves and Gary N. Powell 263 Relationships between Holland’s vocational typology, Schein’s career anchors and Myers—Briggs’ types Hilmar Nordvik Job level as a systemic variable in predicting the relationship between supervisory communication and job satisfaction Edward W. Miles, Steven L. Patrick and Wesley C. King, Jr 293 ‘Shared job strain’: A new approach for assessing the validity of job stress measurements Norbert Semmer, Dieter Zapf and Siegfried Greif 311 Book reviews Part 4 December 1996 315 Modelling employee withdrawal behaviour over time: A study of turnover using survival analysis Mark John Somers An evaluation of employee absenteeism as a coping mechanism among hospital nurses Rick D. Hackett and Peter Bycio Methodological issues in unemployment research: Quantitative and/or qualitative approaches? Regina Pernice Workplace family-supportive programmes: Predictors of employed parents’ importance ratings Michael R. Frone and John K. Yardley Intent to leave and absenteeism as reactions to perceived inequity: The role of psychological and social constraints Nico W. Van Yperen, Manet Hagedoorn and Sabine A. E. Geurts Personality and job competences: A comment on the Robertson & Kinder (1993) study Jesus F. Salgado The dynamics of behavioural response to conflict in the workplace G. E. Martin and ThomasJ . Bergmann An assessment of the construct validity of the Belbin Self- Perception Inventory and Observer’s Assessment from the perspective of the five-factor model Willard G. Broucek and Gerry Randell Book reviews