most appropriate tests to measure personality

1. Presented By: Rabia Javed Iqbal

2. 
Personality Measurement
A personality measure or personality test aims to describe
aspects of a person's personality that remain stable
throughout that person's lifetime, the individual's character
pattern of behavior, thoughts, and feelings.

3. 
Purpose of Personality
 Motivation
 Preference
 Interest
 Emotional make-up
 Style of interacting with people and situation.

4. 
Tools of Personality
 Myer – Briggs type indicator
 Rorschach inkblot test
 Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
 Thematic apperception test
 DISC assessment
 Szondi test
 HEXACO model of personality structure
 Animal metaphor test
 House tree person HTP

5. 
Personality Inventories
Myers – Briggs type indicator (MBTI)
 It introduced by katharine Cook Briggs and his daughter, Isabel Briggs
 Myers, in 1940.
 MBTI based upon an earlier theory that was introduced by Carl Jung. a
theory that humans experience the world using four psychological
functions: sensation, intuition, feeling and thinking.
 Later Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs would format those four
psychological functions into sixteen personality types.
 MBTI measures extroverted or introverted.

6. Rorschach Inkblot
 Invented by Hermann Rorschach in the 1960s.
 Inkblot test is an assessment where an examiner presents the participant
with an inkblot, and the participant tells the examiner what they see.
 It is used for depression, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders.
 It is applied on child, age 5 years.

7. Szondi Test
Developed by Leopold Szondi in 1935.
During the test, participants are shown a series of facial photographs
which represent people who have been classified as homosexual, sadist,
epileptic, hysteric, catatonic, paranoid, depressive and a maniac.

8. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
 Introduced by Hathaway and McKinley in 1939.
 Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI) can be used
to assess adult personality and psychopathology.
 It across 10 scale; hysteria, depression, paranoia, hypochondriasis,
psychopathic deviate, masculinity/femininity, psychastenia,
schizophrenia, hypomania, and social introversion.
 The MMPI has been changed and revised over the years, but the
most recent version, the MMPI-2, contains 567 true-false questions
and takes between a 60 to 90 minutes to complete.
 There is a shorter version, the MMPI-2-RF, which contains 338
questions and takes around 30-50 minutes to complete.

9. HEXACO Model of Personality
 The HEXACO model was constructed in the year 2000 to assess
some of the personality dimensions, and theoretical interpretations,
that had been outlined in earlier studies.
 The model measures six major personality dimensions, namely:
Honesty-Humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness,
conscientiousness, openness to experience.
 The inventory is comprised of 200 questions for the full-length
assessment or 100 questions for the half-length assessment.

10. DISC Assessment
 Introduced by Walter Clark in 1940.
 DISC personality profile was designed to measure dominance,
influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness.
 The DISC assessment contains 28 questions.

11. Thematic Apperception test
TAT was developed by the American Psychologist Henry A. Murray in 1930s.
Purpose: Reveals an individual's drives, emotions, and conflicts
Format: Paper and pencil
Age range: 5 years to 79 years
Time: Two sessions of 1 hour each
3 sets of card, total 31 cards, 1 of blank, 10 foe boys, 10 for girls and 10 for both.

12. The Animal Metaphor Test
 It was developed by Dr. Albert J Levis in 1988.
 The second step is to describe each of the animals’ superficial and
internal characteristics, including their age in human years, their
genders, and three of their personality traits.
 You are then required to write a dialogue between the two animals,
through which your deepest subconscious processes and internal
conflicts are revealed.

13. House-Person-Tree Personality Test
HTP was developed by John Buck in 1948.
It is used to measure aspects of persons personality.
The test can also be used to assess brain damage and general mental
functioning.
The subject receives a short, unclear instruction to draw a house, a tree
and a figure of a person.
During first phase, the test taker ask to draw the house, tree and person
and the test giver asks questions about each picture.
There is 60 questions designed y Buck.
During the second phase of HTP the test-taker draws the same picture
with pencil or pen.