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- Personality assessment methods in school psychology encompass a range of techniques designed to explore the psychological characteristics and traits of students. These methods provide valuable insights into a student’s emotional well-being, behavior, and cognitive processes.
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Personality assessment methods in school psychology encompass a range of techniques designed to explore the psychological characteristics and traits of students. These methods provide valuable insights into a student’s emotional well-being, behavior, and cognitive processes.
- Assessment in School Psychology
The landscape of assessment in school psychology is rich and...
- Assessment in School Psychology
- The Hogan Personality Inventory
- Disc Test
- Gallup – Cliftonstrengths™ Assessment
- NEO-PI-R
- Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire
The Hogan personality inventory (Hogan & Hogan, 2002) is a self-report personality assessment created by Robert Hogan and Joyce Hogan in the late 1970s. It was originally based on the California Personality Inventory (Gough, 1975) and also draws upon the five-factor model of personality. The five-factor model of personality suggests there are five ...
The DISC test of personality developed by Merenda and Clarke (1965) is a very popular personality self-assessment used primarily within the corporate world. It is based on the emotional and behavioral DISC theory (Marston, 1928), which measures individuals on four dimensions of behavior: 1. Dominance 2. Inducement 3. Submission 4. Compliance The se...
Unlike the DISC test, the CliftonStrengths™ assessment, employed by Gallup and based on the work of Marcus Buckingham and Don Clifton (2001), is a questionnaire designed specifically to help individuals identify strengths in the workplace and learn how to use them. The assessment is a self-report Likert scale comprising 177 questions and takes roug...
The NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 2008) is a highly popular self-report personality assessment based on Allport and Odbert’s (1936) trait theory of personality. With good reliability, this scale has amassed a large evidence base, making it an appealing inventory for many. The NEO-PI-R assesses an individual’s strengths, talents, and weaknesses and is o...
The EPQ is a personality assessment developed by personality psychologists Hans Eysenck and Sybil Eysenck (1975). The scale results from successive revisions and improvements of earlier scales: the Maudsley Personality Inventory (Eysenck 1959) and Eysenck Personality Inventory (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1964). The aim of the EPQ is to measure the three di...
The MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) is one of the most widely used personality inventories in the world and uses a true/false format of questioning. It was initially designed to assess mental health problems in clinical settings during the 1940s and uses 10 clinical subscales to assess different psychological conditions. The inventory was revised ...
The 16PF (Cattell et al., 1970) is another rating scale inventory used primarily in clinical settings to identify psychiatric disorders by measuring “normal” personality traits. Cattell identified 16 primary personality traits, with five secondary or global traits underneath that map onto the big five factors of personality. These include such trai...
The landscape of assessment in school psychology is rich and varied. It encompasses methodologies ranging from evaluations of academic achievements and cognitive capabilities to in-depth explorations of personality dynamics, social relationships, and behavioral patterns (Bailenson, 2018).
This critical review of narrative methods of personality assessment highlights their value in understanding unique aspects of personality functioning of children and adolescents in the context of school psychology.
David Watson. This module provides a basic overview to the assessment of personality. It discusses objective personality tests (based on both self-report and informant ratings), projective and implicit tests, and behavioral/performance measures.
- David Watson
- 2019
Given the enormity of the field of personality assessment, it is beyond the scope of the present chapter to provide an exhaustive review of the many approaches to personality assessment in common use today.
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Recognise and describe common projective tests used in personality assessment. Personality testing is often used to screen applicants for employment and job training. Personality tests are also used in criminal cases, custody battles, and assessments of psychological disorders. This section explores the best known among the many different types ...
