Personality & Personality

Assessment John Holland’s Self-Directed Search Test

Personality

Personality Assessment
Meyer Friedman & Ray Rosenman’s Type A and Type B
Personalities
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→ Jenkins Activity Survey

TRAITS, TYPES, AND STATES

MMPI
Personality Traits
→ profile

relatively enduring
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Personality State

contextual
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distinguishable
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→ trait
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state

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Personality Types

➢ State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

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Carl Jung's Typology

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 Personality Assessment: Some Tennessee Self-Concept Scale and Piers-Harris Self-
Concept Scale
Basic Questions
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Beck Youth Inventories–Second Edition (BYI-II)

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WHO? Who is being assessed, and who is doing the ➢

assessment?
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differentiation

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→ high self-concept differentiation

low differentiation
The Self as the Primary Referent.
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self-report
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Another Person as the Referent.

self-concept

→ self-concept measure
Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) & PIC-2

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Beck Self-Concept Test
➢ Gambling/Cautiousness

Overly Positive
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generous (lenient) severe

Impression Management

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error of central
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tendency
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halo effect
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Validity Scales

WHAT? What is assessed when a personality assessment is

conducted?
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WHERE? Where are personality assessments conducted?

Primary Content Area Sampled. ➢

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Response Style
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Socially Desirable Responding

HOW? How are personality assessments structured and
conducted?
Acquiescence
Scope and Theory.

Nonacquiescence
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Deviance
→ California Psychological Inventory (CPI 434)
Extreme
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locus of →
control.
→ Locus of Control →

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theory-based
atheoretical →
→ Blacky Pictures Test
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Frame of Reference.
→ frame of reference

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→ Q-Sort Technique

→ Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

(MMPI) →

Adjective Checklist Method –

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Test Completion Format

Procedures and Item Formats.

Scoring and Interpretation.

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 Nomothetic Approach Developing Instruments to Assess
Personality

→ LOGIC AND REASON

Idiographic Approach ➢

Content-Oriented Approach
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Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory

Normative Approach Personal Data Sheet

Ipsative Approach
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Issues in Personality Test Development and Use.

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THEORY

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

 DATA REDUCTION METHODS → NEO-PI
➢ Neuroticism,
Extraversion, and Openness.
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➢ Agreeableness and Conscientiousness.
Emotional Stability Factor
Cattell’s 16 Personality Factors
Neuroticism

Extraversion Factor
→ surface
traits
Intellect Factor Openness
source traits
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Agreeableness

Conscientiousness

CRITERION GROUP

Criterion

Criterion Group

The Big Five

Empirical Criterion Keying

→ Revised NEO Personality Inventory NEO PI-R)

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➢ → Clinical criterion group:

→ Normal control group:

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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→ ➢

➢ validity scales

Lie (L) Scale

Infrequency (F) Scale

Correction (K) Scale

Cannot Say Scale

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Content Scales

→ Back-Page Infrequency (Fb)

Supplementary Scales

True Response Inconsistency (TRIN)

Harris-Lingoes Subscales Variable Response Inconsistency (VRIN)

Harris scales

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S Scale

Faking Bad Scale (FBS)

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MMPI-2.
MMPI-2-RF.

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Demoralization Scale
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MMPI-2 Restructured Form
Specific Problem (SP) Scales Group

Clinical Scales Group

Validity Scales Group

Interest Scales Group

PSY-5 Scales Group ➢

Personality Assessment & Culture

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Acculturation
MMPI-A. Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory-Adolescent

Values

Instrumental Values
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Terminal Values

Personal Identity

→ Identification

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Worldview
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