scholarly journals How to Design an Objective Test to Assess Personality: Step by Step

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Santacreu ◽  
Miriam Romero ◽  
Cristina Casadevante ◽  
Jose Manuel Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Objective Test ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Verbal Descriptions ◽  
Objective Tests

<p>Objective tests allow us to study the behavior that people show, without having to resort to the analysis of the verbal descriptions they make about their own behavior. Objective tests have been widely used to study abilities, and it was not until the works of Cattell and Warburton that these instruments also began to be systematically designed to study personality. In this work, we describe what objective tests are and why they have the potential to be a useful instrument in personality assessment. We present what researchers need to know to design an objective personality test. To this end, we offer an example of the process that we followed to design a test that measures self-control. This work could serve as a basis for researchers who want to design this type of instruments.</p>

scholarly journals How to Design an Objective Test to Assess Personality: Step by Step

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Santacreu ◽  
Miriam Romero ◽  
Cristina Casadevante ◽  
Jose Manuel Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Objective Test ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Verbal Descriptions ◽  
Objective Tests

<p>Objective tests allow us to study the behavior that people show, without having to resort to the analysis of the verbal descriptions they make about their own behavior. Objective tests have been widely used to study abilities, and it was not until the works of Cattell and Warburton that these instruments also began to be systematically designed to study personality. In this work, we describe what objective tests are and why they have the potential to be a useful instrument in personality assessment. We present what researchers need to know to design an objective personality test. To this end, we offer an example of the process that we followed to design a test that measures self-control. This work could serve as a basis for researchers who want to design this type of instruments.</p>

Effects of Targeted Self-Coaching on Applicant Distortion of Personality Measures

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Sliter ◽  
Neil D. Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Lie Detection ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Personality Measures ◽  
Personality Tests ◽  
The Impact

The present study evaluated the impact of reading self-coaching book excerpts on success at faking a personality test. Participants (N = 207) completed an initial honest personality assessment and a subsequent assessment with faking instructions under one of the following self-coaching conditions: no coaching, chapters from a commercial book on how to fake preemployment personality scales, and personality coaching plus a chapter on avoiding lie-detection scales. Results showed that those receiving coaching materials had greater success in raising their personality scores, primarily on the traits that had been targeted in the chapters. In addition, those who read the chapter on avoiding lie-detection scales scored significantly lower on a popular impression management scale while simultaneously increasing their personality scores. Implications for the use of personality tests in personnel selection are discussed.

Test-Taking Motivation and Personality Test Validity

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. O’Neill ◽  
Richard D. Goffin ◽  
Ian R. Gellatly
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Test Validity ◽  
Personality Testing ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Field Sample ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Test Taking ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Valid Criterion

In this study we assessed whether the predictive validity of personality scores is stronger when respondent test-taking motivation (TTM) is higher rather than lower. Results from a field sample comprising 269 employees provided evidence for this moderation effect for one trait, Steadfastness. However, for Conscientiousness, valid criterion prediction was only obtained at low levels of TTM. Thus, it appears that TTM relates to the criterion validity of personality testing differently depending on the personality trait assessed. Overall, these and additional findings regarding the nomological net of TTM suggest that it is a unique construct that may have significant implications when personality assessment is used in personnel selection.

scholarly journals Facets of Conscientiousness and risk of dementia

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 974-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Sutin ◽  
Y. Stephan ◽  
A. Terracciano
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Genetic Risk Factors ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Standard Deviation Increase ◽  
Study Participants

BackgroundMultiple studies have found Conscientiousness to be protective against dementia. The purpose of this study is to identify which specific aspects, or facets, of Conscientiousness are most protective against cognitive impairment and whether these associations are moderated by demographic factors and/or genetic risk.MethodsHealth and Retirement Study participants were selected for analysis if they completed the facets of Conscientiousness measure, scored in the range of normal cognitive functioning at the baseline personality assessment, and had at least one follow-up assessment of cognition over the up to 6-year follow-up (N = 11 181). Cox regression was used to test for risk of incident dementia and risk of incident cognitive impairment not dementia (CIND).ResultsOver the follow-up, 278 participants developed dementia and 2186 participants developed CIND. The facet of responsibility had the strongest and most consistent association with dementia risk: every standard deviation increase in this facet was associated with a nearly 35% decreased risk of dementia; self-control and industriousness were also protective. Associations were generally similar when controlling for clinical, behavioral, and genetic risk factors. These three facets were also independent predictors of decreased risk of CIND.ConclusionsThe present research indicates that individuals who see themselves as responsible, able to control their behavior, and hard workers are less likely to develop CIND or dementia and that these associations persist after accounting for some common clinical, behavioral, and genetic risk factors.

Personality Assessment in a Collectivist Culture

1991 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Frewer ◽  
Anne V. Bleus
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Order Analysis ◽  
First Order ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Papua New Guinean ◽  
Collectivist Society

Papua New Guinea has been defined as a collectivist (as opposed to individualist) culture (Triandis et al., 1986a). The aim of this study was to examine the effects of allocentricity on a standardised personality test, the Eysenck Personality Inventory, using a sample of Papua New Guinean university students. The responses of 256 subjects were factor analysed. The 22 factors extracted in the first-order analysis were reduced to eight factors in a higher-order analysis. These eight factors were only psychologically meaningful if interpreted within the context of a collectivist society. The implications for cross-cultural personality assessment are considered.

Confirmation of Objective Test Factors and Assessment of Their Relation to Questionnaire Factors: A Factor Analysis of 113 Rating, Questionnaire and Objective Test Measurements of Personality

1958 ◽  
Vol 104 (436) ◽  
pp. 608-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan H. Scheier ◽  
Raymond B. Cattell
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Objective Test ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Basic Strategy ◽  
Self Rating ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Objective Tests

Cattell's basic strategy in personality research has been first to establish personality factors for each of three major types of measurement, rating (Life-Record), questionnaire (Self-Rating), and objective tests, then to compare factors from one realm with factors from another (7). A factor in any one realm is established in the first place by being replicated. As Cattell says (4, p. 291): “… a functionally unitary trait or process should nevertheless not be considered established by a pattern in a single factor analytic research, but must reappear consistently and persistently in independently rotated studies.”

Testing Time: Testing the understanding of the concept of equation

1957 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 400-402
Author(s):  
Eugene D. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Objective Test ◽  
Testing Time ◽  
Subjective Tests ◽  
Objective Tests

There are basically two types of tests used by teachers of mathematics: objective and subjective. In objective tests, the judgment of the scorer docs not affect the score; the objective test scored by a number of persons yields the same score on each scoring. Different scores on subjective tests frequently result not only when scored by different persons, but even when scored by the same person at different times.

Adequacy of Socialization as an Interpretation of the Social Desirability Response Set

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 887-892
Author(s):  
James A. Oakland
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Social Desirability Scale ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response Set ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
Assessment Research

An interpretation of the social desirability response set as measuring, in part, the adequacy of socialization was supported in that the social desirability ratings of the 26 Ss with low scores on the Edwards Social Desirability Scale tended to be more varied than those of 26 Ss with high scores. It was suggested that this factor may be significant in the interpretation of individual personality test scores, that cross-fertilization between clinical theories and personality assessment research may be indispensible in this area, and that previous arguments for using ratings of social desirability as a means of personality assessment should be taken more seriously.

Relationship between Patients' Responses to Objective Tests and Examiners' Characteristics

1969 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Davis ◽  
Anthony P. Gillette
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Objective Test ◽  
Personality Scale ◽  
Performance Differences ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
Objective Tests ◽  
K Scale

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the age, race, and sex of psychological examiners (Es) would affect the objective personality scale performance of Negro and Caucasian psychiatric patients. Eight groups of 10 Ss each were administered the Taylor MAS, the MMPI K scale, and the MMPI L scale by one of eight Es. Half the Ss were Negro and half were Caucasian. Half the Es were Negro and half were Caucasian; half the Es were male and half were female; and half the Es were older ( M = 36) and half were younger ( M = 23). Analysis of the data indicated that, depending on Ss' race, significant performance differences in Ss' objective test responses were related to E's age, sex, and race. However, the interaction between Es' age and Ss' race was the most consistently demonstrated effect in this study.

Assessment models of personal characteristics by the method of audio diagnostics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Владислав Петров ◽  
Vladislav Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Field Independence ◽  
Software Complex ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Psychological Examination ◽  
Diagnostic Models

The article is devoted to the development of models for assessing some characteristics of the personality of soldiers using the method of audio diagnostics. The results of the research of the Sequoia («Sequence») technique possibilities implemented in the form of presentation of 45 ambiguous audio fragments are presented. The projective diagnostic tool allows to estimate the degree of expression of five personal characteristics: 1) self-control-impulsiveness; 2) adaptability (adaptability) – maladaptation, alienation; 3) field independence – useful dependence; 4) cognitive labiality – rigidity; 5) harmony of psycho-emotional state. The article focuses on the parameters of diagnostic models, analyzes the psychometric capabilities of personality assessment based on the software complex «Sequence». The approach based on stimulatory sound effects can be applied to a variety of diagnostic purposes, including the diagnosis of personality in extreme, pre-extreme, post-extreme and conditionally extreme situations. The use of the method of audio diagnostics significantly increases the confidence of soldiers to the psychologist and their motivation for psychological examination, as well as the accuracy of evaluation of the leading personal characteristics.

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