Personality test (26-30, Aly)

BLEPP

• Measures episodic verbal learning and memory, and demonstrates sensitivity to a range of clinical conditions

Otis-Lennon Ability Test (OLSAT)

• Designed to assess general mental ability or scholastic aptitude of pupils
• Identifies gifted children

Philippine Aptitude Classification Test (PACT)

• Developed to measure students' abilities and help them decide on the course they will take after high school
• Assumes that aptitudes are required in different combinations and degrees for successful performance in different post-secondary courses
• Suitable for 14-15-year-old students

Flanagan Industrial Tests

• Used for personnel selection programs, based on identified job elements
• Job elements include:
  • Arithmetic
  • Assembly
  • Components
  • Coordination
  • Electronics
  • Expression
  • Ingenuity
  • Inspection
  • Judgment and Comprehension
  • Mathematics and Reasoning
  • Mechanics
  • Memory Patterns
  • Planning
  • Precision
  • Scales
  • Tables
  • Vocabulary

Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Test (W-GCTA)

• Designed to assess a person's critical thinking abilities
• Widely used in legal practices
• Assesses ability for critical thinking, creating conclusions, analyzing strong and weak arguments, recognizing assumptions, and evaluating arguments
• Suitable for 20-64-year-old individuals

Thurstone Test of Mental Alertness (TMA)

• Suitable for adults
• Assesses four job-related tasks:
  • Adjusting to new situations
  • Learning new skills quickly
  • Understanding complex or subtle relationships
  • Thinking flexibly

Personality Tests

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2)

• Suitable for 16-year-old and older individuals
• Multiphasic personality inventory intended for use with both clinical and normal populations to identify sources of maladjustment and personal strengths
• Helps in diagnosing mental health disorders and distinguishing normal from abnormal
• Elicits a wide range of self-descriptions scored to give a quantitative measurement of an individual's level of emotional adjustment and attitude toward test-taking
• Can be administered individually or in groups
• Original MMPI had 13 scales, while the latest version (MMPI-II) maintained the original 10 scales
• MMPI (1939) - most important approach taken during construction was Empirical Criterion Keying (development, selection, and scoring of items within the scales was based on some external criterion of reference)

Clinical Scales:

• Hypochondriasis (Hs) - present multiple, vague, and chronic physical problems
• Depression (D) - depressed mood, low self-esteem, lethargy, and feelings of guilt
• Hysteria (Hy) - develop physical symptoms in reaction to stress and can be dependent, naïve, infantile, and narcissistic
• Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) - associated with antisocial behavior
• Masculinity/Femininity (Mf)

Validity/Dissimulation Scales:

• Lie Scale (L Scale) - assesses the likelihood of the test taker to approach the instrument with a defensive mindset
• Infrequency Scale (F Scale) - reveals inconsistencies in answer patterns and could also indicate severe distress or psychopathology
• Superlative Self-Presentation Scale (S Scale) - measures defensiveness
• Correction Scale (K Scale) - reflection of the frankness of the test taker's self-report
• "Cannot Say" (CNS or ?) Scale - measures how a person doesn't answer a test item
• True Response Inconsistency (TRIN) - measures indiscriminate responding
• Variable Response Inconsistency (VRIN or VRIN) - measures random true or false responding
• Infrequency-Psychopathology Scale (Fp) - reveals intentional or unintentional over-reporting
• Fake Bad Scale (FBS) - designed to detect intentional over-reporting of symptoms
• Back Page Infrequency (Fb) - reflects significant change in the test taker's approach to the latter part of the test

Higher-Order Scales:

• Emotional/Internalizing Dysfunction (EID)
• Thought Dysfunction (THD)
• Behavioral/Externalizing Dysfunction (BXD)

Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)

• Suitable for 18-89 years old, PAI-A for 12-18 years old
• Self-administered, paper-and-pencil/online test composed of 344 statements for which the respondent must choose which is true for him or her
• Assesses psychopathological syndromes and provides information relevant for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and screening for psychopathology

Clinical Scales:

• Somatic Complaints (SOM)
• Anxiety (ANX)
• Anxiety-Related Disorders (ARD)
• Depression (DEP)
• Mania (MAN)
• Paranoia (PAI)
• Schizophrenia (SCZ)
• Borderline Features (BOR)
• Antisocial Features (ANT)
• Alcohol Problems (ALC)
• Drug Problems (DRG)

Treatment Scales:

• Aggression (AGG)
• Suicidal Ideation (SUI)
• Stress (STR)
• Nonsupport (NON)
• Treatment Rejection (RXR)

Interpersonal Scales:

• Dominance (DOM)
• Warmth (WRM)

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

• Self-report inventory designed to identify a person's personality type, strengths, and preferences
• Extraversion-Introversion Scale: where you prefer to focus your attention and energy
• Sensing-Intuition Scale: how you take in information
• Thinking-Feeling Scale: how you make decisions
• Judging-Perceiving Scale: how you orient the outer world

Edwards' Preference Personality Schedule (EPPS)

• Suitable for adults
• Designed primarily as an instrument for research and counseling purposes to provide quick and convenient measures of a number of relatively normal personality variables
• Based on Murray's Need Theory
• Objective, forced-choice inventory for assessing the relative importance that an individual places on 15 personality variables
• Useful in personal counseling and with non-clinical adults

Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey (GZTS)

• Suitable for 16 years and older individuals
• Items are stated affirmatively rather than in question form, using the 2nd person pronoun
• Factor analysis

Personality Traits Measured:

• General Activity (G)
• Restraint (R)
• Ascendance (A)
• Sociability (S)
• Emotional Stability (E)
• Objectivity (O)
• Friendliness (F)
• Thoughtfulness (T)
• Personal Relations (P)
• Masculinity (M)

NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R)

• Suitable for 17-89 years old, NEO-PI-3 for 12-99 years old
• Standard questionnaire measure of the Five Factor Model, provides systematic assessment of emotional, interpersonal, experiential, attitudinal, and motivational styles
• Gold standard for personality assessment
• Self-administered
• Brief Version: NEO-FFI
• T-scores

Neuroticism:

• Identifies individuals who are prone to psychological distress
• Measures the tendency toward emotional instability, turmoil, and general distress
• High = anxious, emotionally labile, quick to anger, sad, impulsive, low self-worth
• Low = emotionally stable and secure, less prone to psychological distress

Neuroticism (N):

• Depression (N3) - likelihood to experience the range of depressive affects
• Self-Consciousness (N4) - measures discomfort with social awkwardness
• Impulsiveness (N5) - measures the degree to which individuals have difficulty resisting their urges
• Vulnerability (N6) - measures the degree to which individuals feel capable or not of coping with stress