ISSUES WITH PERSONALITY

TESTS

TEAM 9:-Umesh Raaj.M

Arvind VijaykumarRamanan

Jenifer.PHari Krishnan

Venkatsubramanian.R

WHAT IS PERSONALITY?

Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behaviour.

Sum of total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others.

Most often described in terms of measureable traits.

Origin :- Heredity or Environment Research tends to support heredity over

environment

WHAT IS PERSONALITY TEST?

Personality test is something that you access your behaviour.

May be of any one of the type:- i) FORMAL ii) INFORMAL

Examples:- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator The Big Five Personality Model

HOW PERSONALITY TEST IS USEFUL? A personality test is useful to categorize

different kinds of people reacting to different environment.

Useful for recruiting the job candidates in terms of following factors:-

To assess the person’s knowledge. Capability of Problem solving. Changing personality. To evaluate the effectiveness of therapy.

MEASURING PERSONALITY

Paper Based Test

Situational exercise

Self report inventories

Projective test

ISSUES WITH TESTING THE PERSONALITY

Self-report personality test is usually conducted for a long duration of time.

Projective personality.

Reliability

Accuracy (validity)

TYPES OF RELIABILITY Inter-rater reliability

Test-retest reliability

Parallel-forms reliability

Inter-consistency reliability

External factors affecting reliability

INTER-RATER RELIABILITY

Different people, same test

TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY

Same people, different times

PARALLEL-FORMS RELIABILITY

Different people, same time, different test

INTER-CONSISTENCY RELIABILITY

Different questions, same construct

PROBLEMS WITH PERSONALITY TESTS Reliability Vs Validity Reliability is different from

validity Validity refers to whether or not

a test really measures what it claims to measure.

Reliability is the measure of precision whereas validity is the measure of accuracy.

CONCLUSION Personality Testing: Scientific vs.

Entertaining There are different personality

assessments test conducted, but personality scores and personal skills are two different things.

There are a lot of “INFORMAL" tests. They might even give you a little insight

into your personality, but they are in no way formal, scientific assessments of personality.

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