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Personality Tests

About Printable This website provides a collection of interactive personality tests with
Tests detailed results that can be taken for personal entertainment or to learn
more about personality assessment. These tests range from very serious
[ G+1 1 97 and widely used scientific instruments popular psychology to self
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produced quizzes. A special focus is given to the strengths, weaknesses and
validity of the various systems.
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Big Five Personality Test: The general consensus in academic psychology
is that there are five fundamental personality traits. This model is assumed
in most personality research, and is the basis of many of the most well
regarded tests employed by psychologists who maintin close connections
with academia. The "big five" tend to not be popular in consumer focused
personality assessment or self-help because to many people the feedback
of the model seems relatively basic. This test uses public domain scales
from the International Personality Item Pool.

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Open Extended Tungian Type Scales: The system of personality types
proposed by Carl Jung (1921) and later refined by C. Myers and I. M. Briggs
has become an extremely widely used personality theory in self-help,
business management, counselling and spiritual development contexts,
but it is not commonly used in academic research where, like all type
theories, it is treated sceptically. The system produces 16 personality types
on the basis of four dichotomies and is the system used in the Myers Briggs
Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter instruments, among
many others. The OEJS is a free and open source measure of the four
dichotomies which yields an equivalent result to the usual tests.

Other tests
Artistic Preferences Scale: Rate paintings to find out what your preferences
are for art in terms of style and content.

Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory: Often cited as the first personality

test, the WPI was developed by the United States military during World
War I to screen for recruits at high risk of developing shell shock. Finished
too late to be put to such use, the WPI instead found its place as the
dominant self-report personality measure in academic psychological
research during the 1920s and 30s, but has mostly been forgotten since
then.

Nonverbal Immediacy Scale: This scale measures individual differences in

the use of body language in communication.

Evaluations of Attractiveness Scales - Male / Female: The EMAS and EFAS

measure individual differences in preferences for the looks of men and
women respectively.

IIP RIASEC Markers: The Holland Codes (the acronym RIASEC refers to
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the six Holland Codes) is a typology of occupations that groups jobs into six
categories and describes the different personality characteristics of people
who are inclined towards each category. Since its developed by John L.
Holland in the 1950s the theory has become dominant one in the field of
career counselling and it has been incorporated into most of the
assessment you might take at a university career planning centre. The
RIASEC Markers from the public domain Interest Item Pool were
developed by James Rounds and colleagues in 2008 for use in
psychological research.

Short Dark Triad: The "dark triad" is a name for three personality traits that
are commonly seem as malicious or evil: narcissism, machiavellianism
and psychopathy. The study of these three traits together as the dark triad
became popular in the 2000s. In 2011, Delroy Paulhus and Daniel Jones
published the Short Dark Triad (SD3) as a single short test to measure all
three traits at once.

Nerdy Personality Attributes Scale: A measure of personality attributes

that distinguish those who call themselves nerds from those that do not.

Narcissistic Personality Inventory: The NPI is a measure of narcissism

used in social psychological research. It is derived from the definition of
narcissistic personality disorder, but measures subclinical levels of the
trait and is not a diagnostic for NPD.

Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale: The RWAS scale was developed as part

of the study of authoritarian and fascist regimes that became popular after
World War II.

Open DISC Assessment Test: The DISC personality model is a system that
divides people into four personality types. The model is promoted
commercially by several different orginizations for use in the workplace.

Four Temperaments Test: If you had asked a well educated western person
in 1850 to describe themselves, they would have responded using the
language of the four temperaments, an extension of the ancient four
humours theory of medicine to personality by Greek physician Galen (129
216 AD). The four temperaments as the accepted way to describe
personality was vanquished by the development of psychology after 1900,
but recently they have seen a resurgence and been promoted in spiritual
and self-help contexts.

Cattell's 16 Personality Factors Test: In the 1940s Raymond Cattell

proposed a model of human individual differences with 16 factors based on
a statistical study of responses to personality questionnaires. Cattell's
model has never been widely accepted and his statistical analysis that
revealed 16 factors has never been successfully replicated, but the test he
produced, the 16PF Questionnaire, has been very popular in applied
psychology like contexts such as counselling and human resources. This
test uses the public domain scales from the International Personality Item
Pool that were developed by Lewis Goldberg to be equivalent to the 16PFQ.

Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale: Developed in the 1960s by Morris Rosenberg

for a study of adolescent self image the RSES has become the most widely
used general purpose measure of self esteem in psychological research.

Survey of Dictionary-based Isms (SDI-46): The SDI is a measure of

sociopolitical attitudes developed by Gerard Saucier. Its name references
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