Personality is the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. It is believed that personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. While there are many different definitions of personality, most focus on the pattern of behaviors and characteristics that can help predict and explain a person's behavior.
A personality test is a tool used to assess human personality. Personality testing and assessment refer to techniques designed to measure the characteristic patterns of traits that people exhibit across various situations.
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Today, a wide variety of personality tests have become popular and are often based upon specific theories of systems of personality. Commonly used personality tests include, for example, NEO PI-R, the DiSC Personality Test, the HEXACO personality test and the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.
There are different types of personality tests
Self-report inventories: These tests ****involve having participants read questions and then rate how well the question or statement applies to them
Projective tests: Projective tests are most often used in psychotherapy settings and allow therapists to quickly gather a great deal of information about a client.
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HiPeople focuses on self-reported personality tests. Why? They can be standardized and use established norms. Self-inventories are also relatively easy to administer and have much higher reliability and validity than projective tests
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HiPeople offers a variety of personality tests. Most of our personality assessments are based on the “Five Factor” Model of understanding personality - one of the dominant taxonomies of personality that decades of research have shown to be predictive of workplace performance.
Here is one example:
The BFAS is a comprehensive and validated personality measure which was developed by personality psychologist Colin DeYoung at the University of Minnesota. This test seeks to explain personality variation in more detail by breaking down each of the Big Five five factors into two lower-level “aspects” which, though typically correlated with one another, can vary independently: