Personality Testing

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Personality Testing

Personality is defined in Webster’s as “The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits of a person.” The construct in which I chose to do my test critique on was Personality. The three test which I selected all were personality tests that tested people ranging form ninth grade up to adults. Within all of these tests each test had a particular design to help those wanting to make a career-related assessment with their personality.
Personality tests interest me because I have grown up around an aunt who administers personality tests, and I have been given quite a few of them. When researching this construct I wanted to be able to relate to the topic, and personality tests greatly interest me. I feel as if they can predict a lot about a person and how they normally interact with others, and how a person deals with things on a daily basis.
In the three personality tests that I examined I found two of them to be very useful, but the other not so useful. The first test in which I examined was the called the Gordon Personal Profile-Inventory (Revised). Creating eight factors that deal with personality set up this test. The eight factors that consisted in this test were Ascendancy, Responsibility, Emotional Stability, Socialibility, Cautiousness, Original Thinking, Personal Relations, and Vigor. A ninth was added by the sums of the four scales and that was Self-Esteem. Each section measured the person’s personality by giving the test taker an option of two high preferences responses and two low preferences responses. Although this test seemed to be very reliable it did not seem to be as valid. Since the test was created such a long time ago, not much had been revised but the manual. Although it did measure a person’s personality, there seem to be better indictors then this test itself.
The best personality test that I reviewed was the Hogan Perso...