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PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

Personality assessment techniques measure individual traits and behaviors for various applications including clinical diagnosis, hiring, and educational development. Methods include self-report inventories, projective techniques, clinical interviews, and thought sampling, each with distinct advantages and disadvantages in terms of objectivity, reliability, and validity. Key assessments mentioned are the MMPI, Thematic Apperception Test, and experience sampling, highlighting the complexity and variability in personality evaluation.

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PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

Personality assessment techniques measure individual traits and behaviors for various applications including clinical diagnosis, hiring, and educational development. Methods include self-report inventories, projective techniques, clinical interviews, and thought sampling, each with distinct advantages and disadvantages in terms of objectivity, reliability, and validity. Key assessments mentioned are the MMPI, Thematic Apperception Test, and experience sampling, highlighting the complexity and variability in personality evaluation.

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PERSONALITY

ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES
• Personality Assessment : It is the scientific process of measuring and
evaluating an individual traits, behavioural, emotional patterns, motivation
( personality).

• Uses :

- Clinical Settings – for clinical diagnosis

- Organizational Settings : for hiring & recruitment

- Educational settings : Personality development

- Career setting : used in career counselling & guidance.

- Research settings
• Psychometric properties of assessment techniques are different
from one another. Specifically objectivity, reliability & validity.

• Reliability: The consistency of response to a psychological assessment


device.

• Validity :The extent to which an assessment device measures what it


is intended to measure.
Methods of Assessment

• Self-report or objective inventories


• Projective techniques
• Clinical interviews
• Behavioral assessment procedures
• Thought and experience sampling procedures
1. Self-Report Personality Inventory

• A personality assessment technique in which subjects answer questions


about their behaviors and feelings. It involves asking people to report on
themselves by answering questions about their behavior and feelings in
various situations.

• Needs to indicate how closely each statement describes their


characteristics or how much they agree with each item. These tests include
items dealing with symptoms, attitudes, interests, fears, and values.
1) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) :
Most clinically used test.
Applied both non-clinical & clinical population.

2) 16 Personality factor questionnaire


Focus on 16 source factors & 5 surface factor
Applied both clinical & non-clinical population

3) Eysenck Personality Inventory


Measures 3 dimension
Applied both clinical & non-clinical population.
Advantages :
- high objectivity

Disadvantages :
- Fixed choice questions hence lack flexibility
Social desirability bias
Low response rate
Acquiescence bias
2) Projective techniques

• A personality assessment, in which subjects are presumed to project personal needs, fears, and

values onto their interpretation (regardless of the issues of concern) or description of an

ambiguous stimulus.

• Based on Freud concept of projection.

• It is unstructured and indirect form of assessing personality.

• There is no clearly defined answers.

• Global assessment of personality, assessing personality as whole.


2) Thematic Apperception Test

- Most widely used projective test.

- Persons taking the test are asked to construct a story about the

people and objects in the picture, describing what led up to the


situation shown, what the people are thinking and feeling, and
what the outcome is likely to be.
3) Others Word association test, sentence completion test.
Advantages
-low chances for faking

Disadvantages
- Low objectivity
- Low in reliability (low inter-scorer reliability ) & validity.
-Unstandardized
- Require highly skilled expert
- Highly expensive
4) Clinical Interview

- Personality assessment also be done through clinical interview by


asking relevant questions about past and present life experiences, social
and family relationships etc.

-A wide range of behaviors, feelings, and thoughts can be investigated in


the interview, including general appearance, demeanor, and attitude;
facial expressions, posture, and gestures; preoccupations; degree of self-
insight; and level of contact with reality.
Disadvantage

Subjectivity - Interpretation of interview material is subjective

and can be affected by the interviewer’s theoretical orientation and

personality.
Thought and experience sampling

• As the name indicates individual thoughts are recorded


systematically.
• Thoughts are private ( not evident ).
• Here the observer & person being observed are same.
• A client can be asked to write or record thoughts and moods for later
analysis
• This method is used for diagnosis and treatment.
• In experience sampling, the participant are asked to describe the
social & environment in which the experience occur.

• Aimed to assess how one’s thought or moods influenced by the


context in which they occur.

• Thought sampling research relies on technological developments such


as pagers and smart wristwatches that emit a signal when subjects
are supposed to record their thoughts, experiences, or moods.
• Limitation
subjects might be so busy doing other things that they forget or
fail to respond and record their activities when signaled to do so.

As a result, the useful data might be restricted only to the most


conscientious research participants

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