Everything about Personality test
Method of assessing human personality constructs
A personality test is a method of assessing human personality constructs. Most personality assessment instruments are in fact introspective self-report questionnaire measures or reports from life records (L-data) such as rating scales. Attempts to construct actual performance tests of personality have been very limited even though Raymond Cattell with his colleague Frank Warburton compiled a list of over 2000 separate objective tests that could be used in constructing objective personality tests. One exception, however, was the Objective-Analytic Test Battery, a performance test designed to quantitatively measure 10 factor-analytically discerned personality trait dimensions. A major problem with both L-data and Q-data methods is that because of item transparency, rating scales, and self-report questionnaires are highly susceptible to motivational and response distortion ranging from lack of adequate self-insight to downright dissimulation depending on the reason/motivation for the assessment being undertaken. Wikipedia →
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📖 Definitions
Noun A method of assessing human personality constructs.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons
Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption‐II
Personality and organizations: A test of the homogeneity of personality hypothesis.
The meaning of personality test scores.
Test-Retest Effect on Personality Questionnaires
Intra-family relationships in personality test performance
Warning Against Faking on a Personality Test: Effects on Applicant Reactions and Personality Test Scores
Borderline Personality and the Rorschach Test
🆕 Influential since 2022
An external stability audit framework to test the validity of personality prediction in AI hiring
Illustrating a narrative: A test of game elements in game‐like personality assessment
Maturing out of alcohol and cannabis co‐use: A test of patterns and personality predictors
Personality traits and their impact on the social entrepreneurial intentions of management students: a test of big five personality approach
Explaining standardized educational test scores: The role of creativity above and beyond GPA and personality.
📚 Books worth reading
The origin of intelligence in the childJean Piaget · 1952
The Mismeasure of ManStephen Jay Gould, Stephen Jay Gould · 1981
Personality assessmentRobert P. Archer · 2008
Handbook of psychological assessmentGary Groth-Marnat · 2003
The Rorschach techniqueBruno Klopfer · 1942
Essentials of psychological testingLee J. Cronbach · 1949
Psychological testingAnne Anastasi · 1954
The Thematic Apperception Test, the Children's Apperception Test, and the Senior Apperception Technique in clinical useLeopold Bellak, David M. Abrams · 1975
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