Personality Inventory.ppt

Personality Inventory Reliability and Validity reliability: does it yield consistent result? validity: does it measure what it is supposed to measure? Construct validity: the extent to which an instrument measures some hypothetical construct such as intelligence, extraversion, etc. Convergent validity Divergent validity Discriminant validity Predictive validity: the extent that a test predicts future. Self-Report Inventories Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire multiple-choice test developed by Cattell and his colleagues in the 1940s factor analysis (based on the correlation coefficient) in a quest to try to discover all the fundamental dimensions of human personality /wiki/16_Personality_Factors Self-Report Inventories Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) measure of the Five Factor Model: OCEAN Openness Fantasy Aesthetics Feelings Actions Ideas Values Conscientiousness Competence Order Dutifulness Achievement Striving Self-Discipline Deliberation Extraversion 1. Warmth 2. Gregariousness 3. Assertiveness 4. Activity 5. Excitement Seeking 6. Positive Emotion Agreeableness Trust Straightforwardness Altruism Compliance Modesty Tendermindedness Neuroticism Anxiety Hostility Depression Self-Consciousness Impulsiveness Vulnerability to Stress Self-report Inventories California Psychological Inventory created in a similar manner to the MMPI not concerned with maladjustment or clinical diagnosis, but concerned itself with more normal aspects of personality Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-3 intended to provide information on psychopathology, modeled on four scales 14 Personality Disorder Scales 10 Clinical Syndrome Scales Correction Scales (which help detect inaccurate responding) 42 Grossman Personality Facet Scales Original MMPI (1930s) Hathaway and McKinley empirical keying approach the clinical scales were derived by selecting items that were endorsed by patients known to have been diagnosed wi