Personality meaning and personality tests

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            Personality of a person can be defined as the set of behaviors that makes the person unique and different from others. Behaviors of a person is formed by the attitudes, emotions, motivation level and thought patterns of a person. Temperament, parenting style of parents and socioeconomic environment in which one is grown up also influences an individual’s personality.

There are varied personality types and structures which are seen in the population. Different  tests are formulated by many experts to assess an individual’s personality traits. Some of them are mentioned below.

1)    Myers Briggs type indicator(MBTI Test)
2)    Stanford- Binet IQ Test
3)    Eysenck personality questionnaire
4)    Neo Pi-R(Big five personality test)
5)    Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory(MMPI)
6)    16 PF(Personality factor)- Cattell’s 16 factor personality theory
7)    Projective measures based on Freudian psychoanalytic theory
8)    Rorschach inkblot test
9)    Thematic apperception test

All these tests are used by psychologists and psychiatrists according to situation’s demand. All these tests have it’s own advantages and disadvantages. Any of such test result should not be considered as conclusive. A personality test assesses an individual’s personality in a general perspective. Personality tests are used by professionals to diagnose a mental disorder, measure intelligence quotient(IQ) of a person, for job recruitments, to assess motivation levels of a person or any other purpose which the professional consider as appropriate.

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