Personality Tests
CHILDREN
- # CAT: Children Apperception Test [CAT] A version of the TAT for use with children. Age 3 to 15 years. Administration time 1½-2 hours.
- # CPQ: Raymond B.; Cattell, The Children's Personality Questionnaire (CPQ) is a standardized personality measure for children ages 8-12. The questionnaire targets 14 dimensions of personality taken from a factor analysis of personality performed by Cattell in 1950.
- # HSPQ: Cattell, Raymond B.; Cattell, Mary D.; Johns, Edgar. The High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ) was developed to measure primary personality characteristics in adolescents.
The High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ) is a self-report inventory for children ages 12-18. It measures 14 personality characteristics that research has shown to be good predictors of social, clinical, occupational, and school behavior. These 14 characteristics were identified through factor analysis and are as follows: Warmth, Intelligence, Emotional Stability, Excitability, Dominance, Enthusiasm, Conformity, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Discipline, and Tension. The test takes 45 - 60 minutes to complete and may be given in groups.
HTP: The house-tree-person test (HTP), over age 3, is a projective personality test, a type of exam in which the test taker responds to or provides ambiguous, abstract, or unstructured stimuli (often in the form of pictures or drawings). In the HTP, the test taker is asked to draw houses, trees, and persons, and these drawings provide a measure of self-perceptions and attitudes.
The primary purpose of the HTP is to measure aspects of a person's personality through interpretation of drawings and responses to questions. It is also sometimes used as part of an assessment of brain damage or overall neurological functioning.
The HTP was developed by Buck in 1948, and updated in 1969.
RAVEN'S PROGRESSIVE MATRICES: Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices) are multiple choice tests of abstract reasoning, originally developed by Dr John C. Raven in 1936.
Raven's Progressive Matrices and Vocabulary tests measure the two main components of general intelligence (originally identified by Spearman): the ability to think clearly and make sense of complexity, which is known as eductive ability (from the Latin root "educere", meaning "to draw out") and the ability to store and reproduce information, known as reproductive ability.
ADULTS
BVMGT: The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, or simply the Bender-Gestalt test, is a psychological test first developed by child neuropsychiatrist Lauretta Bender. The test is used to evaluate "visual-motor maturity", to screen for developmental disorders, or to assess neurological function or brain damage.
Projective Tests. Projective techniques are sensitive to unconscious aspects of behaviour, permit and encourage a wide variety of responses, are highly multi-dimensional and thereby reveal various psychical aspects of the personality. Since these tests are rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, our professionals are best equipped to provide clinical interpretations because of their thorough grounding in psychoanalysis.
RORSCACH INKBLOT TEST: Rorschach Inkblot Test [RIT], Primarily a personality assessment tool that brings forth an individual's idiosyncratic ways of perceiving, it has a very high diagnostic value in identifying psychological and personality disorders. Age 15 years and above. Administration time 2-4 hours.
MMPI-2: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is one of the most frequently used personality tests in mental health. The test is used by trained professionals to assist in identifying personality structure and psychopathology. The original authors of the MMPI were Starke R. Hathaway, PhD, and J. C. McKinley, MD.
CLINICAL SCALES
The original clinical scales were designed to measure common diagnoses of the era. While the descriptions of each type were originally used in assessment, the current practice is to use the numbers only.
- # TAT : Thematic Apperception Test, Indian Adaptation [TAT] Reveals the silent dynamics of the personality in terms of unconscious desires and needs, defences commonly used, and the individual's view of interpersonal relationships. Age 10 years and above. Administration time 1½-2 hours.
- # 16 PF: The 16 Personality Factors, The 16PF was developed from the work of Dr. Raymond Cattell and his factor analysis over 45 years ago. Instead of four, there are 16 different scales that measure things like anxiety, liveliness, dominance, sensitivity, perfectionism, openness to change, group-orientation, and more. The factors are further grouped together into global factors: self-control, anxiety, extraversion, independence, and tough-mindedness.
- # MBTI: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), originated by Carl Gustav Jung, assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The MBTI instrument is called "the best-known and most trusted personality assessment tool available today.
FIRO-B: Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO) is a theory of interpersonal relations, introduced by William Schutz in 1958. This theory mainly explains the interpersonal underworld of a small group. The Theory is based on the belief that when people get together in a group, there are three main interpersonal needs they are looking to obtain - affection/openness, control and inclusion. Schutz developed a measuring instrument that contains six scales of nine-item questions that he called FIRO-B. This technique was created to measure or control how group members feel when it comes to inclusion, control, and affection/openness or to be able to get feedback from people in a group.
SCALES:
BDI: The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, BDI-II), created by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used instruments for measuring the severity of depression.
In its current version the questionnaire is designed for individuals aged 13 and over, and is composed of items relating to symptoms of depression such as hopelessness and irritability, cognitions such as guilt or feelings of being punished, as well as physical symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss, and lack of interest in sex.
HAMILTON INVENTORY: The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD), also known as the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) or HAM-D, is a 21-question multiple choice questionnaire that clinicians may use to rate the severity of a patient's major depression.[1] Max Hamilton originally published the scale in 1960 and reviewed and evaluated it in 1966,1967,1969 and 1980.
The questionnaire rates the severity of symptoms observed in depression such as low mood, insomnia, agitation, anxiety and weight loss. The questionnaire is presently one of the most commonly used scales for rating depression in medical research.
- # ROSENBERG'S SELF-ESTEEM: The Rosenberg self-esteem scale, developed by Morris Rosenberg, is a widely-used self-esteem measure.
OTHERS:
- # CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
- # PROBLEM SOLVING
- # PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
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