PERSONALITY TEST

INTRODUCTION Wilma Y. Villasan Reporter

SAMPLE PERSONALITY TEST

FOR FUN.. :D

O We often get in situations when we take

decisions without a second thought and this is the right moment to find out what they mean.
O What would you do first if you were in a

situation where:

Think about what you will do first, then second and so on.
O The baby is crying. O The doorbell is

ringing.
O The clothes are

hanging outside and it has started to rain.

O The water is

O The phone is

ringing.

running from the tap.

Each action reflects the priorities that you have set in your life.
ACTION Attend to the baby Pick up the clothes
Switch the tap off See who is at the door Answer the phone

PRIORITY Family Sex

Wealth Friends and relatives Career and job

INTRODUCTION

We all have STRENGTHS and WEAKNESSES

What's RIGHT for one person may be WRONG for another.

Sometimes the behavior of others doesn't make any sense to us

We are not the same person

We have different PERSONALITIES

Personality

What is personality?

EMOTIONS

BEHAVIORA L RESPONSE

IMPRESSIO N

ATTITUDES

O Your personality is entirely up to you. O It is in the actions you take and the

decisions you make.

O Arises from within the individual and

remains fairly consistent throughout life.

How do you change your personality?

O The only way to

change your personality is to take active steps to become the person you want to be.

We need to UNDERSTAND each other & COMMUNICATE well

What should we do?

O Learn more about our OWN

PERSONALITY, and about OTHER PERSONALITY TYPES.

O Through this we can.
O understand our strengths and

weaknesses. O improve our interpersonal relationships O realign our expectations towards others O gain a better self-knowledge that will help us define and achieve goals

Beginning of Personality Study

Study of personality started with Hippocrates'

Focus of personality study

O Understanding individual differences in

particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability.

O Understanding how the various parts of

a person come together as a whole.

Determining Personality Types

Personality Tests
O A questionnaire or other standardized

instrument designed to reveal aspects of an individual's character or psychological makeup.

O Personality typing is helpful in the areas of growth

and self-development.

Development of personality tests

O Iterative process whereby a test is progressively

refined.
O Can proceed on theoretical or statistical grounds. O Theoretical - developing test items that should in

principle measure the psychological domain of interest.

O Statistical - involve the use of exploratory factor

analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to verify that items do group together factors empirically

Meaning of personality scores

O Difficult to interpret in

a direct sense
O Norms are created to

provide a comparative basis for interpreting a respondent's test scores. O percentile ranks O z scores O sten scores O other forms of standardised scores

O Personality test is expected to demonstrate

reliability and validity.

Importance of Personality Test

Types of personality test

O The two types of tests that are used to

assess personality are

O Projective personality tests.
O Objective personality tests.

Personality test examples

O Objective Personality O Projective

Tests O Adjective Checklist O Edwards Personal Preference Schedule O Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Invetory-2 (MMPI-2) O Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Personality Assessment
O Rorschach Inkblot

Technique O Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)