Personality Tests
Personality tests, which aim to assess an individual’s personality traits, are divided into two as projective and objective. Objective personality tests are test that have standard scoring and interpreting procedures, where structured material is presented. At this point, most of pencil and paper personality tests come under the category of objective tests.
Whereas projective tests assess an individual’s main motives and personality patterns when challenged by structured test material. Projective tests, which present extensively detailed information about an individual’s personal dynamics, do not have as many standard scoring and interpreting procedures as objective tests, therefore, they are more affected by the clinician’s knowledge and experience.
Personality tests, besides being categorized as objective and projective, are also distinct their purposes. While tests such as MMPI, Rorschach, TAT are personality tests that are mostly used for clinical purposes, the personality inventories such as 16PF and MBTI are clinical tests that mostly measure an individual’s dominant personality traits and in this context, the individual’s competence.
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