This document provides an outline for interpreting a personality profile. It includes sections on assessing profile validity, describing the individual's personality style, how they experience and express emotions, their capacity for intimacy, typical defensive patterns, self-awareness, internal standards, and self-esteem. The interpreter is prompted to discuss relevant findings from the profile and other data sources for each section.

1. Report 2
PYC 6700

2. Basic Outline for
Interpretation
• Profile Validity
• Personality Style
• 1. Affect Experience/Expression
• 2. Capacity for Intimacy and Relatedness
• 3. Defensive Patterns and Capacities
• 4. Self Observing Capacity (Psychological Mindedness)
• 5. Capacity to Construct and Use Internal Standards and Ideals
• 6. Self Esteem/Self Regard

3. Profile Validity
• Can profile be interpreted? | Why or why not
• Any threats to validity
• Confidence in profile to provide meaningful
data
• Any other threat to validity?
• Characteristics of person that can be inferred
on basis of validity data

4. Personality Style
• High point and/or code Type.
• What does this indicate about individual?
• What are basic characteristics you feel are
relevant?
• Aspects of usual modal characteristics that
you do not believe are relevant for this
person

5. Affect
Experience/Expression
• Regulation of Emotions | What might
profile indicate
• Includes relevant validity data
• Personality Test | History | Behavior &
Mood during process
• Prominent Emotional experiences

6. Capacity for Intimacy
and Relatedness
• Style of relationships
• ability to differentiate among kinds of relationships
• ability to share self with others and under what
circumstances
• capacity for empathy

7. Defensive Patterns and
Capacities
• What kinds of experiences stress the
person? What makes this person most
anxious?
• Ways person copes with
anxiety/stress/uncertainty
• Defense Mechanisms utilized primarily
• Locus of Control

8. Self Observing Capacity
(Psychological Mindedness)
• Step into “shoes” of others
• Understanding reasons for own behavior
and behavior of others | Mentalization
(degree to which person understands their own
needs, motives, desires, intentions and that of
others)
• Reflect on life
• Philosophy of Life

9. Capacity to Construct and Use
Internal Standards and Ideals
• Standards of Performance
• Ideals in life or relationships
• Conscience and sense of ethics and justice
• Congruity between standards and behavior

10. Self Esteem/Self Regard
• Basic sense of positive/negative feelings
about self and where that appears to stem
from
• Confidence in self | Sense of self efficacy
• Level of Narcissistic Investment (over-
value-to-under-value self)
• Sense of vitality in nonverbal expression