Q.What is meant by structured personality tests? Which are the two most widely used structured personality tests?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Structured personality tests are self-report measures on which the subject objectively rates statements about her or his own feelings; the two most widely used are the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF).
What structured personality tests are
Structured personality tests are the same as self-report measures. It was Allport who suggested that the best method to assess a person is by asking her or him about herself/himself, which led to the use of self-report measures. These are fairly structured measures, often based on theory, that require subjects to give verbal responses using some kind of rating scale. The method requires the subject to objectively report her or his own feelings with respect to various items. Their key features are:
- The responses are accepted at their face value.
- They are scored in quantitative terms.
- They are interpreted on the basis of norms developed for the test.
The two most widely used structured tests
- The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) — widely used in personality assessment. It was developed by Hathaway and McKinley as a helping tool for psychiatric diagnosis, and has proved very effective in identifying varieties of psychopathology. Its revised version is available as MMPI-2, and it consists of 567 statements; the subject has to judge each statement as 'true' or 'false' for her/him. The test is divided into 10 subscales that diagnose problems such as hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, masculinity–femininity, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, mania and social introversion. In India, Mallick and Joshi developed the Jodhpur Multiphasic Personality Inventory (JMPI) along its lines. …
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