Meaning | A personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics / characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make. |
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Synonym | self-report personality inventory |
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Narrower | California Personality Inventory, CPI | A self-report personality inventory originally / originally derived from the MMPI |
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Eysenck Personality Inventory, EPI | A self-report personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism) |
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, MMPI | A self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with |
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, 16 PF | A self-report personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the 16 personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits |
Broader | personality inventory, personality assessment | A questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits |
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