7. Personality assessment, objective & projective test

Personality assessment

is a key component of clinical evaluation. It seeks to understand an individual’s characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that persist over time and across situations.

Objective test

standardized questionnaires or inventories that measure specific personality traits or dimensions through structured, self-report items. They rely on fixed-response formats, such as true-false or multiple-choice, and are scored using established norms.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

It is designed to assess personality traits and identify emotional and psychological disorders.

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The MMPI true or false items consist of ____ items. that assess various aspects of personality and psychopathology.

True or false

MMPI items is

Clinical scales

a type of item in MMPI that measure different psychological conditions, such as depression, paranoia, and schizophrenia,

Validity scales

a type of item in MMPI that determine whether a person is responding truthfully.

Neo personality inventory revised (NEO-PI-R)

it measure normal personality traits based on the Five-Factor Model (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism)

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NEO-PI-R consist of how many items?

Five point scale

NEO-PI-R items are

Projective test

are psychological assessments that use ambiguous or unstructured materials to allow individuals to express their inner thoughts, emotions, and unconscious conflicts.

Rorschach Inkblot Test

It consists of 10 inkblot cards, some black- and-white and others colored. Individuals are asked to describe what each inkblot looks like or reminds them of.

Thematic Apperception test

It consists of pictures depicting people in ambiguous situations, and the individual is asked to create a story about what is happening in each scene, including what led up to the event and how it might end.

Sacks sentence completion test (SCCT)

It consists of 60 incomplete sentences that individuals are asked to complete in their own words

Draw-a-person test

The test asks individuals to draw a person, sometimes followed by drawings of the opposite sex. The drawings are analyzed based on their size, details, and proportions to gain insight into the person’s self-concept,emotional state, and personality characteristics.

The house-tree-person test

It requires individuals to draw
a house, a tree, and a person, each representing different aspects of the self and environment.