Assessing Traits• Personality inventory

– Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)• Lie scale

–Handout 10-7 Personal Attitudes & Traits

1pt True = 1,2,4,7,8,13,16,17,18,20,21,24,25,26,27,29,31,33

1pt False =3,5,6,9,10,11,12,14,15,19,22,23,28,30,32

Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale.

Some respondents tend to give socially desirable rather than honest responses.

(#4, #11)

Mean: 13.2

High scores tend to present themselves in a favorable light that probably does

not reflect reality

Handout 10-8 Self-Monitoring Scale

• Assess the extent to which people observe and control their expressive behavior out of concern for social appropriateness

• 18.4 (high self-monitor)– guided by external factors / can control expressive

behavior– shape behavior to fit situation

• 10.1 (low self-monitor)– more inner directed– more stable relationships– less changing / variable

1pt True = #5-8,10,11,13,15,16,18,19,24,25

1pt False = #1-4, 9, 12,14, 17, 20-23

less long-lasting and more short-term relationships

more stable relationships & less dating partners

Handout 10-10

• Samuel Gosling’s Modified Big Five Test• Reverse #’s 2-4-6-8-101=72=63=54=45=36=27=1

C = (3 & 8)A = (2 & 7)N = (4 & 9)O = (5 & 10)E = (1 & 6)

The Big Five Factors

C = (3 & 8)A = (2 & 7)N = (4 & 9)O = (5 & 10)E = (1 & 6)

Testing PersonalityMyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)• Jungian Types / Cadell’s 16• widely used in business NOT research• positive terms

http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/

Myers-Briggs Foundation

http://www.16personalities.com/enfj-personality

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