PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT

1. PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT

2. Descriptive methods • Experimental Methods How Do Personality Psychologists Study Behavior?

3. Naturalistic Observations • Case Studies • Archives • Survey Methods • Psychological Tests Descriptive methods

4. 2 Types of Experiments: • Laboratory • Field Experimental Methods

5. Personality measurement. • Different theories of personality use different assessment techniques. What is Personality Assessment?

6. Types of tests used depends on: • Objectives • Perspective used (various theories) • Several approaches is assessing: • Self-report inventories • Projective techniques • Clinical interviews • Behavioral assessment Personality Assessment

7. 1. Instrument: A large personality inventory consisting of many scales or tests (e.g., the full Big 5 Inventory) 2. Test/Scale: Several items that measure one personality dimension (e.g., a trait scale on the Big 5, such as extraversion) 3. Measure/Item: A single item (or behavior) that assesses only one personality trait or dimension (e.g., one item of the Big 5) 3 Levels of Measurement

8. Different theoretical orientations tend to be associated with different assessment techniques: • Projective • Subjective • Psychometric • Objective/Behavioral Personality Assessment: Classification Schemes

9. Projective techniques are unstructured, disguised, and geared to assess broad themes in personality structure and functioning. Personality Assessment: Projective Techniques

10. Psychometric tests are structured (they have limited response options) & can be either disguised/non-disguised. • Self-report statements Personality Assessment: Psychometric Techniques

11. Jackson’s Personality Research Form • Inventory (MMPI) Examples of Psychometric Techniques

12. Coopersmith’s Self-Esteem Inventory (1989) • Michigan State Self-Concept of Ability Scale (Brookover et al., 1965) • Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (Fitts, 1965) Examples of questionnaire used to test self-concept