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The Szondi test is a 1935 nonverbal projective personality test developed by Léopold Szondi. [1] [2] He theorized people's decisions are determined by genetically coded preferences ("drives") that untimately shape their entire life ("fate"/"destiny"), and these unconscious preferences can be uncovered through the subject's attraction to photographs of similar individuals.
The Vienna Test System (VTS) is a test system for computerized psychological assessments. It was developed in the 1980's by the Schuhfried Company, founded by Dr. Felix Schuhfried in 1947. VTS allows digital psychological tests to be administered while also providing automatic and comprehensive scoring.
The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) is a personality test meant to measure normal personality developed by Auke Tellegen in 1982. [1] It is currently sold by the University of Minnesota Press. The test in its various versions has had 300, 276 and 198 true-false items. The current version is the 276 items one.
The test was re-standardized in 2001 using a sample of 3740 subjects from across post-reunification Germany; the re-standardized test controls for sex and age by placing an examinee in one of seven age- and sex-defined groups and scoring responses against sample members within the examinee's group. The test can be administered using pencil-and ...
The test-retest reliability for over 6 years, as reported in the NEO PI-R manual, was the following: N = .83, E = .82, O = .83, A = .63, C = .79. Costa and McCrae pointed out that these findings not only demonstrate good reliability of the domain scores, but also their stability (among individuals over the age of 30).
The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
The text containing the test was first published in 1956, and the most recent revision was published in 1996. It was created in a similar manner to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)—with which it shares 194 items. But unlike the MMPI, which focuses on maladjustment or clinical diagnosis, the CPI was created to assess the ...
Karolinska Scales of Personality is a personality test, superseded by the Swedish Universities Scales of Personality. It measures personalities with a 135-item questionnaire, answered on a four-point Likert scale and grouped into 15 scales: Psychic anxiety; Somatic anxiety; Muscular tension; Psychasthenia; Inhibition of aggression; Detachment ...