scholarly journals Formalized Computer-Aided Handwriting Psychology: Validation and Integration into Psychological Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Yury Chernov ◽  
Claudia Caspers
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Handwriting Analysis ◽  
Context Specificity ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

In contrast to traditional researches that involve a manual, non-quantitative, and subjective way of performing handwriting analysis, in the current research, a special computer-aided method of revised handwriting analysis is used. It includes the detection of personality traits via manual quantitative registration of handwriting signs and their automated quantitative evaluation. This method is based on a mathematical–statistical model that integrates multiple international publications on the evaluation of handwriting signs. The first aim is the validation of the revised method against the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire Revised (16PF-R), which is performed as a self-report personality test by test persons and was developed and researched empirically by Raymond B. Cattell et al. A second aim is the development of an integrated model for assessment including handwriting analysis: when both methods come to the same result on a certain scale, then the construct can be accepted with higher reliability; in contrast, when results are contradictory, they should be regarded as a limitation of each method and raise awareness in the researchers, as these contradictions are a precious source of additional information regarding the complexity, ambiguity, and context specificity of personality traits.

scholarly journals The relationship between personality traits and vocational interests

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon P. De Bruin
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Vocational Interests ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Extension Analysis

This This study examined the relationship between vocational interests and basic personality traits. The interest fields of the 19-Field-Interest Inventory were related to the second order factors of the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire by means of a factor extension analysis. The results showed that extroverts tend to be interested in fields related to social contact and the influencing of other people. Emotionally sensitive individuals tend to be interested in the arts and languages. Independent individuals tend to be interested in creative thinking. The implications of the findings for career counselling are discussed. Opsomming Hierdie studie het ondersoek ingestel na die verband tussen beroepsbelangstellings en basiese persoonlikheidstrekke. Die 19 belangstellingsvelde van die 19-Veld-belangstellings-vraelys is aan die hand van ’n faktorverlengingsontleding met die tweede orde faktore van die 16-Persoonlikheids-faktorvraelys in verband gebring. Die resultate dui daarop dat ekstroverte geneig is omin veldewat sosiale kontak en die beinvloeding vanmense behels, belang te stel. Emosioneel sensitiewe individue is geneig om in kunssinnge en taal verwante velde belang te stel. Onafhanklike individue is geneig om in kreatiewe denke belang te stel. Die implikasies van die resultate vir loopbaanvoorligting word bespreek.

Personality Traits and Sick Leave in Workers Diagnosed with Nonorganic Neck Pain

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1272-1282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartolomé Llor Esteban ◽  
Mª Montserrat Sánchez Ortuño ◽  
Mariano García Izquierdo ◽  
José Antonio Ruiz Hernández ◽  
Aurelio Luna Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Neck Pain ◽  
Sick Leave ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
The Relationship

Previous research has suggested that personality can influence the perception and reporting of physical symptoms, such as pain. To assess the relationship between the course of nonorganic neck pain and the individual's personality, we studied the association between two indicators of neck pain prognosis, such as the duration of sick leave associated with neck pain and sick leave recurrence, and 15 personality traits in a sample of 64 workers suffering from disabling neck pain without any signs of physical abnormalities in the neck area. The TEA Personality Test (TPT), a self-report instrument designed to evaluate personality traits related to organizational behaviors, was used. Compared to the normative data, the study sample obtained high scores in the Depression, Anxiety and Emotional Instability scales, thus suggesting a personality profile primarily characterized by high neuroticism-related scores. Controlling for age, gender, and any rehabilitation undergone, we found a positive relationship between Depression and the duration of sick leave (in weeks). Moreover, lower scores on the TPT personality trait Dynamism and activeness were associated with higher likelihood of sick leave recurrence. These findings highlight the need for further research into the role played by personality at the onset and in the maintenance of nonorganic neck pain. Furthermore, they suggest that a complementary psychological approach may be useful to nonorganic neck pain management.

Finger Prints and Personality Scores

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 1021-1022
Author(s):  
Dagmar Schaefer ◽  
M. A. Persinger
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Finger Print ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Left Middle

200 university students were tested to determine whether or not different types of finger prints were associated with personality test data. Comparisons were made between the three main finger-print types: loop, whorl and arch, on each of the 10 digits for each scale on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF). Subjects with arches on their left index fingers or left middle fingers scored significantly higher on the Neuroticism factor (forthright versus shrewd) than people who had whorls on these fingers. However, no obvious large or simple relationships were found in this preliminary study between the 16 PF scores and finger-print types.

Personality Correlates of a Test of Honesty

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 1015-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Logan ◽  
Robert C. Koettel ◽  
Robert W. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Phase Ii ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Correlates ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship

The goal of this study is to assess the construct validity of a preemployment test of honesty, the Phase II Profile, in relation to the personality traits measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire. Of the four predetermined criteria, only the relationship to emotional stability was significant. Two of the 12 relationships expected to be nonsignificant were significant. The correlations obtained in this study and in two others were so low that the construct validity for the tests of honesty in relation to the chosen personality traits could not be confirmed.

Personality of Alcoholics as Measured by Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and House-Tree-Person Color-Choice Characteristics

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 627-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Kirchner ◽  
Stanley S. Marzolf
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Discriminant Functions ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Significant Point

This report describes four studies of measures of the alcoholic personality by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and the House-Tree-Person. In a sample of 49 male alcoholics support was found for the 16 PF alcoholic personality reported in earlier studies on 4 to 7 scales. Differences in incidence of 20 chromatic characteristics of drawings and in sex of the HTP person drawings between normals and alcoholics were also discovered. Previous research on collegiates reported some low but significant point biserial correlations and discriminant functions between 16 PF traits and trait combinations, and 20 chromatic drawing characteristics. In three instances, alcoholic and college men's drawing characteristics correlated significantly ( p < .05) with the same 16 PF scale. In three other cases, identical findings occurred in correlations of alcoholic men and college women's drawings and traits. Comparison of the data from alcoholics and college students led to the conclusion that in general relationships between drawing characteristics and personality traits may well depend on the type of sample used. Suggestions for further research were made.

Emotion-Trait Interrelations and the Measurement of Personality

1968 ◽  
Vol 23 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1107-1114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Kellerman ◽  
Robert Plutchik
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Hospitalized Patients ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Relative Degree ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Emotion Concepts ◽  
Explicit Criteria

To relate personality concepts to emotion concepts 12 personality trait items were selected on the basis of explicit criteria to represent the trait universe. These terms were paired in all possible combinations and used as a self-report personality test. The scoring categories, however, were based on a theory of emotion which assumes that personality traits can be conceptualized as mixtures of primary emotions. Since the primary emotions are conceived in terms of polar opposites the theory is able to specify the relative degree of conflict implied by each personality trait. The test was given to 3 groups of women equated for IQ, age and income but varying in degree of maladjustment. Two of the groups were hospitalized patients. Results showed that the groups varied significantly in the frequency of choices of high- and low-conflict traits according to theory. Each group had a distinctive emotion profile. An example of the clinical use of the test is given.

Preference for Paintings and Personality Traits

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Tobacyk ◽  
Louise Bailey ◽  
Hal Myers
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Preference Ratings

College students (49 males and 40 females) completed the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and performed 5-point preference ratings on 25 slides of paintings. Factor analysis of preference ratings gave seven dimensions of preference that underlay judgments. Eight significant relationships were found between source traits, measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, and dimensions of painting preferences. Support was obtained for the notion that preference for paintings is congruent with or expresses the personality traits of the rater. Further students reported greater preference for representational paintings than for abstract paintings.

Personality Traits of Parents of Gifted Children

1984 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Fell ◽  
Mark Dahlstrom ◽  
D. Campbell Winter
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Male Population ◽  
Female Population ◽  
General Male Population ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

62 parents of gifted children completed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire. In comparison to the general male population, the fathers tended to be more intelligent, more independent, more aloof, more assertive, and more tense. The mothers also tended to be more intelligent and more independent but were also more conscientious, persistent, and took a more calculated controlled approach to life than the general female population. As a combined group, the parents of gifted children were found to be more intelligent, more likely to stand by their own ideas, more assertive, more independent, self-controlled, and persistent than the general population.

An analysis of personality traits of Chinese military medical peacekeepers in Lebanon

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Ke Yu ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Congyang Li ◽  
Qingsong Wang ◽  
Yingjun Tan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Chinese Military ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
The Military

In this study the Chinese version of the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF; Cattell, Eber, & Tatsuoka, 1970; Dai & Zhu, 1988) was used to investigate the personality traits of 59 Chinese medical peacekeepers in Lebanon. Survey data were compared among 59 peacekeepers, 62 military personnel (control group 1), and 58 medical workers (control group 2). The social boldness, and abstractedness scores of peacekeepers were significantly lower than those of the military and medical worker groups. A secondary factor analysis of the 16PF revealed that the cowardice/decision scores of the peacekeeper group were between the scores of the other 2 groups. The peacekeepers showed lower warmth, social boldness, and abstractedness and higher self-reliance in personality traits. The results suggest that for future peacekeeping missions psychological personality selection should be conducted to recruit military personnel with higher scores of warmth and lower scores for self-reliance.

Preference for Photographs and Personality Traits

1981 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 763-766
Author(s):  
Jerome Tobacyk ◽  
Hal Myers ◽  
Louise Bailey
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire

89 college students completed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire and made ratings of preference on 23 selected slides of photographs. Factor analysis of students' ratings of preference indicated factors corresponding to photograph themes of aggression, form, and innocence/children. Four of six hypothesized relationships between 16 Personality Factor source traits and preferences for the theme of a photograph were found. To some degree, persons prefer photographs whose themes are congruent with or express their personality traits.

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