Through a task analysis of the position of Resident Hall Assistant, 97 incumbents and 19 supervisors provided ratings on task liking and three task characteristics—frequency of occurrence, level of difficulty, and consequence of error—for 88 separate tasks. A significant relation was demonstrated between task liking (a potential response bias) and the ratings on these task characteristics.
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