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Assessment of Personality

• The approach to understanding others may be influenced by a number of


factors that may colour our judgement and reduce objectivity.
• Hence, we need to organise our efforts more formally to analyse
personalities.
• A formal effort aimed at understanding personality of an individual is
termed as personality assessment.
• The goal of assessment is to understand and predict behaviour with
minimum error and maximum accuracy.
• In assessment, we try to study what a person generally does, or how s/he
behaves, in a given situation.
• Besides promoting our understanding, assessment is also useful for
diagnosis, training, placement, counselling, and other purposes.
• Assessment Techniques: Psychometric Tests, Self-Report Measures,
Projective Techniques, and Behavioural Analysis.

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Self report measure

• Assessment is done of a person is by asking her/him about herself/himself.


• These are fairly structured measures, that require subjects to give verbal
responses using some kind of rating scale.
• The method requires the subject to objectively report her/his own feelings
with respect to various items.
• The responses are accepted at their face value.
• They are scored in quantitative terms and interpreted on the basis of
norms developed for the test.
• Ex. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Eysenck
Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
(16 PF).
• The self-report measures suffer from problems like Social desirability &
Acquiescence.

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Projective Techniques
• Projective techniques were developed to assess unconscious motives and
feelings.
• These techniques are based on the assumption that a less structured or
unstructured stimulus or situation will allow the individual to project
her/his feelings, desires and needs on to that situation.
features:
(1) The stimuli are relatively or fully unstructured and poorly defined.
(2) The person being assessed is usually not told about the purpose of
assessment and the method of scoring and interpretation.
(3) The person is informed that there are no correct or incorrect responses.
(4) Each response is considered to reveal a significant aspect of personality.
(5) Scoring and interpretation are lengthy and sometimes subjective.
Famous Projective tests are:
The Rorschach Inkblot Test, The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Sentence
completion Test, Rosenzweig’s Picture-Frustration Study (P-F Study), Draw-a-
Person Test

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Behavioural Analysis
• A person’s behaviour in a variety of situations can provide us with
meaningful information about her/his personality.
Techniques :
1. Interview : structured and unstructured.
2. Observation
3. Behavioural Ratings: halo effect; middle category bias; extreme response
bias.
4. Nomination, and
5. situational tests : situational stress test.

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