The document discusses various methods used to assess personality, including interviews, observation, rating scales, objective and projective personality tests. It provides details on several specific personality tests: - The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) measures psychopathology and includes validity scales. - The 16PF assesses personality traits and takes 30-50 minutes to complete. - The McGill Pain Questionnaire evaluates a person's experience of pain over time. - Projective tests like the Rorschach inkblots test and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) use ambiguous stimuli to project unconscious feelings.

2. INTERVIEW
• The most common method of
judging personality.The aim of
an interview is to collect
information about an
individual characteristics,
behaviour, interests, assests
and weaknesses.

3. TYPES OF INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW
STRUCTURED
UNSTRUCTURED

4. OBSERVATION
• yields useful information
about personality
characteristics. An individual
should be observed in various
situations for several days
before some conclusion about
his personality traits are
arrived at.

5. RATING
SCALE
• one of the oldest and most
versatile of assessment
techniques
• Rating scales present users
with an item and ask them to
select from a number of
choices.
• The rating scale is similar in
some aspects to a multiple
choice test

6. • Integration of the information
that is obtained from various
sources about the individual is
done. It requires many
interviews with the individual.

7. OBJECTIVE
PERSONALTY TESTS

8. PAPER PENCIL
TEST
• Used to assess the relatively
stable and enduring
characteristics of a person in
the form of a questionnaire or
inventory. There are no right
or wrong answer. These are
usually paper pencil tests and
can be given cheaply and
quickly to a large number of
people.

9. PAPER PENCIL TEST (CONT.)
EXAMPLE:I enjoy experimenting with new
ways of doing things
1)Strongly agree
2)Agree
3)Neither agree nor disagree
4)Disagree
5)Strongly disagree

10. • The best known objective
personality test
• created primarily to measure
psychopathology
• contains several validity scales
• MMPI-2 is now the more
commonly used edition

11. MMPI [CONTD..]
→MMPI was designed to identify people
with tendencies toward certain psychological
disorders. Sometimes it is used as an aid in
determining what diagnosis will be given to
people psychological problems.

12. MMPI

13. • Developed over several
decades of research by
Raymond B. Cattell and his
colleagues.
• (16PF), released in 1993, is
the fifth edition of the original
test

14. 16PF [CONT…..]
→Fifth Edition contains 185 multiplechoice items which are written at a
fifth-grade reading level.
→Administration of the test :35–50
minutes for the paper-and-pencil
version and about 30 minutes by
computer.

15. McGIL PAIN
QUESTIONAIRE(MPQ)
• Developed at by Dr. Melzack
at McGill University in
Montreal Canada and has
been translated into several
languages.
• Used to evaluate a person
experiencing significant
pain.
• Used to monitor the pain
over time and to determine
the effectiveness of any
intervention

16. CONTD……
Sections:
(1) What Does Your Pain Feel Like?
(2) How Does Your Pain Change with
Time?
(3) How Strong is Your Pain?

17. EYSENCK PERSONALITY • A questionnaire to assess the
personality traits of a person
QUESTIONAIRE
• devised by the psychologists
Hans Jürgen Eysenck and his
wife Sybil B. G. Eysenck

19. PROJECTVE
PERSONALITY
TESTS

20. RORSCHACH TEST
Hermann Rorschach,a swiss psychiatrist
developed the first major use of projective
techniques around 1910.Test consists of ten
ambiguous,symmetrical inkblots.Inkblot card
appears as if a blot of ink was poured onto a
piece of paper and folded over.These 61/2 x
91/2 ink blot cards are the standard stimuli

21. RORSCHACHINK BLOT

22. • Henry murray developed the
TAT in 1943 at Harvard
psychologic clinic
• consists of a series of ten
black and white pictures that
depict the individuals of both
sexes and of different age
groups involved in a variety of
different activities.

24. SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST
A sentence completion test presented with incomplete
sentences and is asked to complete each sentence with
the first response that comes to mind.
e.g:
My father seldom__________________
Most people don’t know that i’m afraid
of_________________
When i was a child,i_________________
When encountering frustration, i usually
_________________

25. CONTD…..
Advantages:-
1)Short administrative time.
2)Variety of instruments
3)Ease of contruction

26. CONTD….
Disadvantages:1)Lack of reliability
2)lack of validity
Lack of ease of fabrication and deception

27. HOLTZMAN INKBLOT TECHNIQUE(HIT)
>developed in an attempt to minimize certain
statistical difficulties that arise in the analysis of
Rorschach results.
>subject responds to each of a series of 45
ambiguous inkblots
>These responses are scored to describe and to
classify the personality of the subject

28. Contd……
Strength:-Only one response per card,making
research less troublesome.
Weakness:-Not widely accepted and rarely
used,not directly comparable to Rorschach
interpretive strategies.

29. FIGURE
DRAWING
• an individual is instructed to
draw a person, an object, or a
situation so that cognitive,
interpersonal, or psychological
functioning can be assessed.
• Strength:-Quick
administration.
• Weakness:-Interpretive
strategies have typically been
supported by research.

30. MAKE A PICTURE STORY
similar to TAT however,stimulation may be
manipulated by patient.
assist the practitioner in arriving at differential
diagnoses and understanding the individual
psychodynamics in any particular patient

31. CONTD…..
Strength:-Provides idiographic personality
information through thematic analysis.
Weakness:-Minimal research support and
rarely used.

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