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Lesson 3 Assessing Personality

Personality assessment measures personal characteristics and is crucial for making informed decisions in various settings, including hiring. It employs various methods such as objective tests, projective measures, and behavioral assessments to evaluate traits and behaviors. Common tools include the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Revised NEO Personality Inventory, and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, each serving different diagnostic and occupational purposes.

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Lesson 3 Assessing Personality

Personality assessment measures personal characteristics and is crucial for making informed decisions in various settings, including hiring. It employs various methods such as objective tests, projective measures, and behavioral assessments to evaluate traits and behaviors. Common tools include the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Revised NEO Personality Inventory, and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, each serving different diagnostic and occupational purposes.

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Assessing Personality​

Lesson 3​
Assessing one‘s personality is quite difficult compared to assessing one‘s intelligence. What is
personality assessment? ​
Personality Assessment is defined as the measurement of personal characteristics.
(Sarason,I.britanica.com/science/personality-assessment).He further claimed that assessment is an end
result of gathering information intended to advance psychological theory and research to increase the
probability that wise decision will be made in applied setting (e.g.) in selecting the promising people
from a group of applicants. The approach taken by the specialist in personality assessment is based on
the assumptions that much of the observable variability in behavior from one person to another result
from differences in the extent to which individual possesses particular underlying personal
characteristics (traits). The assessment specialist seeks to define these traits to measure the objectivity
and to relate these to socially significant aspect of behavior. ​
For a specific purpose, personality assessment is the tool or process used in making decision to hire
objectively an applicant. For instance, a certain applicant is given tests to determine if his/her traits and
behaviors are suited to the position he/she is seeking for.

Personality assessment used depends on the purpose

●​ like for measuring an individual‘s


●​ characteristics, helping with the diagnosis of personality disorders,
●​ prognosis and therapy planning, measuring anxiety
●​ adjustment,
●​ emotional stability;
●​ for career and occupational selection; and for other purposes.
●​ personality assessment is the tool or process used in making decision
●​ to hire objectively an applicant.
●​ For instance, a certain applicant is given tests to determine if his/her traits and behaviors are
suited to the position he/she is seeking for
For a specific purpose​
Common Methods in Assessing Personality ​
1. Objective Test is a psychological test that measures an individual characteristics in a way that
is not influenced by the examiner‘s own belief. ​
1.1. Self-Report measures typically use multiple-choice items or numbered scales, which
represent a range from 1 (strongly disagree) to (strongly agree).​
Used with both clinical and nonclinical populations, from diagnostic purposes to helping with
career guidance. ​
Used with both clinical and nonclinical populations, from diagnostic purposes to helping with
career guidance.

Myers-Brigg Type Indicator


is based on Carl Jung‘s theory of personality. The MBTI is one of the most popular personality
inventories with nonclinical populations. The MBTI measures individual across four bi-polar
dimensions:
●​ Attitudes: Extraversion-Introversion: This measures whether someone is ―outward-turning and
action-oriented or ―inward turning and thought-oriented.
●​ The perceiving function: Sensing-Intuition. This measures whether someone understands and
interprets new information using their five senses (sensing) or intuition.
●​ The judging function: Thinking-Feeling. This measures whether one tends to make decisions
based on rational thought or emphatic feeling.
●​ Lifestyle preferences: Judging-Perceiving. This measures whether a person relates to the outside
world primarily using their perceiving function (which is either sensing or intuition).
Neo Pi-R - the Revised Neo Pi (personality inventory)

the Revised neo Pi (personality inventory) is designed to measure personality traits using the
five factor model. According to the five factor model, the five dimensions of personality lies along a
continuum of opposing poles and include Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion,
Agreeableness, and Nueroticism.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI


is the most widely used personality inventory for both clinical and nonclinical populations and is
commonly used to help with the diagnosis of personality disorders, it is now also used for
occupational screening for careers like law enforcement, and in college, career, and marital
counselling. (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008).

16 PF (personality factor inventory measures personality


According Cattel ‘s 16 factor theory of personality. The 16PF can also be used to help diagnose
psychiatric disorders and help with prognosis and therapy planning. It provides clinicians with a
normal-range measurement of anxiety, adjustment, emotional stability, and behavioral
problems. It can also be used with other areas such as career and occupational selection.

2. Projective Measures Projective measures, unlike objective tests, are sensitive to the rater‘s or
examiner‘s belief. These are based on Freudian psychology (psychoanalysis) and seek to expose
people‘s unconsciousness perception by using ambiguous stimuli to reveal the inner aspects of
an individual‘s personality.

2.1. Rorschach Test


consists of ten inkblots, which were created by Herman Rorschach dribbling ink on paper and
then folding over the paper to create symmetrical design.
During the test, participants are shown the inkblots and asked what each one look like.
2.2. Thematic Apperception Test
consists of 30 cards (including one blank card) depicting ambiguous drawings.
Test-takers are asked to tell a story and the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
Like the Rorschach test, the results are thought to indicate a person ‘s personality characteristics
and emotional functioning.
3. Other Methods in Assessing Personality britannica.com/science/personality
assessment/Behavioral assessment

face to face interaction - aims to gather information and the adequacy of the data gathered
asked by the interviewer.
In an employment interview, the focus of the interviewer is generally on the candidate ‘s work
experiences, general and specific attitude and occupational goals.

3.2. Personality Inventories- these are among the most common of self-report- by asking people
questions about themselves.

3.3. Behavioral assessment-one of these is the objective observation where the observer is to
describe a person‘s response repertoire in a given time. For example, employer, supervisor,
teacher, either formally or informally- make use of behavioral observation in making decision
about people for whom he/she is being evaluated.

3.4. Word association technique- where a list of words is presented one at a time to the subject
who is asked to respond with the first word or idea that comes to mind. Knowing the different
methods and techniques in assessing personality gives you awareness and helps you prepare the
things you are expected to do especially in applying for a job position.

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