| Test
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Description
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Year
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| Activity vector analysis (AVA)
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psychometric questionnaire designed to measure four personality factors
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1942
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| Bem Sex-Role Inventory
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(Gender identification)
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1974
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| Big Five personality traits
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Five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality
|
1961
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| California Psychological Inventory
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(Self-report inventory)
|
|
| DISC assessment
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A behavior assessment tool based on the DISC theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston, which centers on four[1] “primary emotions” and associated behavioral traits: dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness.
|
1928
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| Strength Deployment Inventory
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Written by Elias Porter to illuminate peoples values, motives, and strengths in response to good times and conflict.
|
1971
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| The Hand Test
|
A projective technique that utilizes ten unbound 3.5 x 4.5 inch cards
|
1983
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| EQSQ Test (Empathizing–systemizing theory)
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Suggests that people may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions: empathizing (E) and systemizing (S)
|
?
|
| Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
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Assesses the personality traits
|
1985
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| Hare Psychopathy Checklist
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Psychopath presence
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1970s
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| Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
|
Thinking preferences in people
|
1982
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| HEXACO model of personality structure Personality Inventory
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Personality structure is a six-dimensional model of human personality
|
2004
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| Holland Codes (RIASEC) (Personality-occupation matching)
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A theory of careers and vocational choice based upon personality types.
|
1990s
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| Inwald Personality Inventory
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Personality inventory primarily used to screen applicants for high-risk positions such as police candidates.
|
1980
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| International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)
|
A public domain collection of items for use in personality tests.
|
N/A
|
| Keirsey Temperament Sorter
|
Self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves.
|
?
|
| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
|
The most widely used and researched standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology.
|
1943
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| Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)
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A psychological assessment tool intended to provide information on psychopathology
|
1969
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| Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
|
A psychometric questionnaire measuring psychological preferences in how most people perceive the world and make decisions, based on Carl Jung's four principal psychological functions of how humans experience the world – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.
|
1921
|
| Newcastle Personality Assessor (NPA)
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A personality test designed to measure the test-taker's personality on five dimensions: Extroversion, Neuroticism, Conscientious, Agreeableness, and Openness.
|
?
|
| Revised NEO Personality Inventory
|
A psychological personality inventory
|
1990
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| Robin Hood Morality Test
|
A simple psychology test
|
?
|
| Rorschach inkblot test
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A psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.
|
1960s
|
| Sokanu Interests, Personality, and Preferences Inventory
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A psychological inventory used in career counseling and employee selection
|
2013
|
| Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire
|
A questionnaire to assess the adaptation of freshmen to college. Used to reduce adaptation problems and drop-outs
|
1987
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| Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire or 16PF Questionnaire (16PF)
|
A multiple-choice personality questionnaire which was developed over several decades of research by Raymond B. Cattell
|
1940s
|
| Swedish Universities Scales of Personality
|
A personality test based on the older Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP)
|
?
|
| Taylor–Johnson Temperament Analysis
|
A personality test designed to measure nine common personality traits for the assessment of individual adjustment.
|
1941
|
| Temperament and Character Inventory
|
An inventory for personality traits devised by Cloninger
|
?
|
| Thematic Apperception Test
|
A projective psychological test
|
1930s
|
| Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
|
A psychological personality inventory
|
early 1970s
|
| True Colors (personality) Test
|
A personality profiling system created by Don Lowry
|
1979
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| Woodworth Personal Data Sheet
|
Commonly cited as the first personality test
|
WWI
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