Personality testing

INTERVIEW• The most common method of

judging personality.The aim of an interview is to collect information about an individual characteristics, behaviour, interests, assests and weaknesses.

INTERVIEW

STRUCTURED UNSTRUCTURED

TYPES OF INTERVIEW

OBSERVATION • yields useful information about personality characteristics. An individual should be observed in various situations for several days before some conclusion about his personality traits are arrived at.

RATING SCALE

• one of the oldest and most versatile of assessment techniques

• Rating scales present users with an item and ask them to select from a number of choices.

• The rating scale is similar in some aspects to a multiple choice test

• Integration of the information that is obtained from various sources about the individual is done. It requires many interviews with the individual.

OBJECTIVE PERSONALTY TESTS

PAPER PENCIL TEST

• Used to assess the relatively stable and enduring characteristics of a person in the form of a questionnaire or inventory. There are no right or wrong answer. These are usually paper pencil tests and can be given cheaply and quickly to a large number of people.

EXAMPLE:-I enjoy experimenting with new ways of doing things1)Strongly agree 2)Agree 3)Neither agree nor disagree4)Disagree 5)Strongly disagree

PAPER PENCIL TEST (CONT.)

• The best known objective personality test

• created primarily to measure psychopathology

• contains several validity scales

• MMPI-2 is now the more commonly used edition

→MMPI was designed to identify people with tendencies toward certain psychological disorders. Sometimes it is used as an aid in determining what diagnosis will be given to people psychological problems.

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MMPI

• Developed over several decades of research by Raymond B. Cattell and his colleagues.

• (16PF), released in 1993, is the fifth edition of the original test

→Fifth Edition contains 185 multiple-choice items which are written at a fifth-grade reading level.

→Administration of the test :35–50 minutes for the paper-and-pencil version and about 30 minutes by computer.

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McGIL PAIN QUESTIONAIRE(MPQ)

• Developed at by Dr. Melzack at McGill University in Montreal Canada and has been translated into several languages.

• Used to evaluate a person experiencing significant pain.

• Used to monitor the pain over time and to determine the effectiveness of any intervention

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Sections:

(1) What Does Your Pain Feel Like?

(2) How Does Your Pain Change with Time?

(3) How Strong is Your Pain?

EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONAIRE

• A questionnaire to assess the personality traits of a person

• devised by the psychologists Hans Jürgen Eysenck and his wife Sybil B. G. Eysenck

PROJECTVE

PERSONALITY

TESTS

Hermann Rorschach,a swiss psychiatrist developed the first major use of projective techniques around 1910.Test consists of ten ambiguous,symmetrical inkblots.Inkblot card appears as if a blot of ink was poured onto a piece of paper and folded over.These 61/2 x 91/2 ink blot cards are the standard stimuli

RORSCHACH TEST

RORSCHACHINK BLOT

• Henry murray developed the TAT in 1943 at Harvard psychologic clinic

• consists of a series of ten black and white pictures that depict the individuals of both sexes and of different age groups involved in a variety of different activities.

A sentence completion test presented with incomplete sentences and is asked to complete each sentence with the first response that comes to mind.

e.g: My father seldom__________________ Most people don’t know that i’m afraid of_________________ When i was a child,i_________________When encountering frustration, i usually _________________

SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST

Advantages:-

1)Short administrative time.

2)Variety of instruments

3)Ease of contruction

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Disadvantages:-

1)Lack of reliability

2)lack of validity

Lack of ease of fabrication and deception

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>developed in an attempt to minimize certain statistical difficulties that arise in the analysis of Rorschach results.

>subject responds to each of a series of 45 ambiguous inkblots

>These responses are scored to describe and to classify the personality of the subject

HOLTZMAN INKBLOT TECHNIQUE(HIT)

Strength:-Only one response per card,making research less troublesome.

Weakness:-Not widely accepted and rarely used,not directly comparable to Rorschach interpretive strategies.

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FIGURE DRAWING

• an individual is instructed to draw a person, an object, or a situation so that cognitive, interpersonal, or psychological functioning can be assessed.

• Strength:-Quick administration.

• Weakness:-Interpretive strategies have typically been supported by research.

similar to TAT however,stimulation may be manipulated by patient.

assist the practitioner in arriving at differential diagnoses and understanding the individual psychodynamics in any particular patient

MAKE A PICTURE STORY

Strength:-Provides idiographic personality information through thematic analysis.

Weakness:-Minimal research support and rarely used.

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