PERSONALITY TEST
INTRODUCTION Wilma Y. Villasan Reporter
SAMPLE PERSONALITY TEST
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O We often get in situations when we take
decisions without a second thought and this is the right moment to find out what they mean.
O What would you do first if you were in a
situation where:
Think about what you will do first, then second and so on.
O The baby is crying. O The doorbell is
ringing.
O The clothes are
hanging outside and it has started to rain.
O The water is
O The phone is
ringing.
running from the tap.
Each action reflects the priorities that you have set in your life.
ACTION Attend to the baby Pick up the clothes
Switch the tap off See who is at the door Answer the phone
PRIORITY Family Sex
Wealth Friends and relatives Career and job
INTRODUCTION
We all have STRENGTHS and WEAKNESSES
What's RIGHT for one person may be WRONG for another.
Sometimes the behavior of others doesn't make any sense to us
We are not the same person
We have different PERSONALITIES
Personality
What is personality?
EMOTIONS
BEHAVIORA L RESPONSE
IMPRESSIO N
ATTITUDES
O Your personality is entirely up to you. O It is in the actions you take and the
decisions you make.
O Arises from within the individual and
remains fairly consistent throughout life.
How do you change your personality?
O The only way to
change your personality is to take active steps to become the person you want to be.
We need to UNDERSTAND each other & COMMUNICATE well
What should we do?
O Learn more about our OWN
PERSONALITY, and about OTHER PERSONALITY TYPES.
O Through this we can.
O understand our strengths and
weaknesses. O improve our interpersonal relationships O realign our expectations towards others O gain a better self-knowledge that will help us define and achieve goals
Beginning of Personality Study
Study of personality started with Hippocrates'
Focus of personality study
O Understanding individual differences in
particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability.
O Understanding how the various parts of
a person come together as a whole.
Determining Personality Types
Personality Tests
O A questionnaire or other standardized
instrument designed to reveal aspects of an individual's character or psychological makeup.
O Personality typing is helpful in the areas of growth
and self-development.
Development of personality tests
O Iterative process whereby a test is progressively
refined.
O Can proceed on theoretical or statistical grounds. O Theoretical - developing test items that should in
principle measure the psychological domain of interest.
O Statistical - involve the use of exploratory factor
analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to verify that items do group together factors empirically
Meaning of personality scores
O Difficult to interpret in
a direct sense
O Norms are created to
provide a comparative basis for interpreting a respondent's test scores. O percentile ranks O z scores O sten scores O other forms of standardised scores
O Personality test is expected to demonstrate
reliability and validity.
Importance of Personality Test
Types of personality test
O The two types of tests that are used to
assess personality are
O Projective personality tests.
O Objective personality tests.
Personality test examples
O Objective Personality O Projective
Tests O Adjective Checklist O Edwards Personal Preference Schedule O Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Invetory-2 (MMPI-2) O Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Personality Assessment
O Rorschach Inkblot
Technique O Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)