Psychological mechanism of the applicant forming impression of interview examination for university admissions

the perspective on designing appropriate interview

Abstract

The present study investigated the psychological mechanism of those who applied to the interview examination which was executed on university admission from the view “structural factor” and “social factor” on procedural justice indicated by Nishigori(2007) . The result of analysis using SEM(Structural Equation Modeling) showed that the influence of “social factor” upon impression of interview composed of “accepting the rule of interview” and “sense of achievement” which they experienced were greater than “structural factor” involved the procedure of interview. In addition, the cognition to “fairness or justice on interview” or “the affirmative on interview” which people who have interviewing experiences have is far higher compared with that of people who have no interviewing experiences.