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, Personality Administration:
• Stable and distinct patterns of behavior that characterize
an individual and his or her reactions to the environment.
• Personality Traits – relatively enduring dispositions;
tendency to act, think, or feel in a certain manner in any
given circumstances and that distinguish one person from
another.
• Personality Types – general description of people
• Personality state – emotional reaction that vary from
one situation to another
• Self-concept – a person’s self-definition; an organized and
relatively consistent set of assumptions that a person has
about himself or herself
Strategy of Structured Personality Test
• Deductive – uses reason and deductive logic to
determine the meaning of a test response
• Logical – Also called as content/intuitive/rational approach
• Item selection based on face validity
• Test designer tries to logically deduce the type of
content that should measure the characteristic to be
assessed.
• It assumes that the test item describes the
subjects’ personality and behavior.
• Theoretical – test construction is guided by a
particular psychological theory
• Every item must be related to on how the theory
describe the characteristic.
Empirical – reliance on data collection and statistical analyses
to determine the meaning of a test response.
• Criterion-Group Strategy
• Also called as criterion-group/criterion-keying method,
external/empirical strategy
(Criterion group – a collection of individuals who share a
characteristic the test developer intends to measure.
• Constructors attempt to locate/create items that distinguish
the criterion and control group followed by cross validation;
then norming follows.
• Factor Analytic Strategy – items that are related to
each other are labeled as one factor.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI)
• Authors: Starke Hathaway, Ph.D. J. Charnley McKinley, MD
• Date of Publication: 1943
• Purpose: Its main use is to assist psychologists and
psychiatrists in distinguishing normal from abnormal groups.
The test was designed to aid in the diagnosis or assessment
of the major psychiatric and sychological disorders.
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