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MODULE 4 : Assessment of Personality
Module 4 : Assessment of Personality 14 hours Meaning and
purpose of personality assessment.
Tools of personality assessment -Self report inventories, Strength
and weakness of self report inventories, 16PF, MMPI ,EPQ: General
outline about these tests.
Questionnaires and Inventories, Projective measures of personality
– Strengths and weakness of projective tests, TAT, Other
measures: Behavioral Observation and Interviews, situational
tests.
Measurement of interest- types of interest tests, Strong Interest
Inventory. Strengths and Weaknesses of Projective tests.
A. MEANING OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
• Personality assessment refers to program designed to provide a
comprehensive evaluation of personality. Personality
assessment refers to the estimation of one‘s personality make
up, that is the person‘s characteristic behaviour patterns and
salient and stable characteristics
,• Sternberg (1977) says, "Personality assessment may be defined
as the set of processes used by a person or persons for
developing impressions and images, making decisions and
checking hypothesis about another person's pattern of
characteristics which determine his or her behaviour in
interaction with the environment.
B. PURPOSE OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
• The purpose of personality assessment is to describe a person in
terms of traits. The most general cues to traits are what the
person does, how he does it and how well he does it.
*Trait is nothing but the observed consistency of behavior. Trait
are not directly observed but inferred from the consistent behavior
of an individual.
Personality measurement aim at studying the following four broad
types of traits
• Traditionally, tests were employed only to measure individual
differences or intraindividual reactions under different
circumstances.
• According to Nunnally (1979) personality measurement aims at
studying the following 4 broad types of traits.
1. Social traits: Traits which determine how persons interact with
other persons in society. It includes traits related to temperament
and character. E.g.: Friendliness, honesty, dominance,
responsibility, shyness etc.
2. Motives: Include the drives such as need to earn money and
prestige, need for academic achievement, need for affiliation,
aggression etc.
, 3. Personal Conceptions: Under the trait of personal conceptions are
included those methods which determine people‘s attitude toward
the self and others, a person‘s values, interests etc.
4. Adjustment: It includes traits like the freedom from emotional
worries or instability and other disruptive behaviour.
Maladjustment is the opposite of adjustment and includes
pathological traits like hallucinations, hysteria, psychoses etc.
*One general characteristic of these 4 traits is that they are
correlated with each otherTOOLS OF PERSONALITY ASSESMENT
Some of the important tests and techniques measuring personality
include (i) Interviews (ii) Projective techniques (iii) Association
techniques (iv) Expressive techniques
There are 3 most common tools (or methods) of personality
assessment.
1. Self-report personality inventories
2. Observational methods
3. Interview Method
4. Projective techniques
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