Issues with personality tests
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This document discusses personality tests and their use in assessing individuals. It defines personality as enduring characteristics that describe behavior and reactions to others. Personality is often described through measurable traits that have origins in both heredity and environment, though research supports a stronger hereditary influence. The document outlines different types of personality tests, including formal and informal examples like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Big Five models. Personality tests can be useful for categorizing people and evaluating them for jobs, therapy effectiveness, and other factors.
Issues with personality tests
- 1. TEAM 9:- Umesh Raaj.M Arvind Vijaykumar Ramanan Jenifer.P Hari Krishnan Venkatsubramanian.R
- 2. Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behaviour. Sum of total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others. Most often described in terms of measureable traits. Origin :- Heredity or Environment Research tends to support heredity over environment
- 3. Personality test is something that you access your behaviour. May be of any one of the type:- i) FORMAL ii) INFORMAL Examples:- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator The Big Five Personality Model
- 4. A personality test is useful to categorize different kinds of people reacting to different environment. Useful for recruiting the job candidates in terms of following factors:- To assess the person’s knowledge. Capability of Problem solving. Changing personality. To evaluate the effectiveness of therapy.
- 5. Paper Based Test Situational exercise Self report inventories Projective test
- 6. Self-report personality test is usually conducted for a long duration of time. Projective personality. Reliability Accuracy (validity)
- 7. Inter-rater reliability Test-retest reliability Parallel-forms reliability Inter-consistency reliability External factors affecting reliability
- 8. Different people, same test
- 9. Same people, different times
- 10. Different people, same time, different test
- 11. Different questions, same construct
- 12. Reliability Vs Validity Reliability is different from validity Validity refers to whether or not a test really measures what it claims to measure. Reliability is the measure of precision whereas validity is the measure of accuracy.
- 13. Personality Testing: Scientific vs. Entertaining There are different personality assessments test conducted, but personality scores and personal skills are two different things. There are a lot of “INFORMAL" tests. They might even give you a little insight into your personality, but they are in no way formal, scientific assessments of personality.
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