Personality Assessment Instruments

Psychological profiling has been around for many years dating back to about 1960. It was credited to Howard Teten and Patrick Mullany because they made the first behavioral analyses for difficult cases (psychologytoday.com n.d.). It first started with Howard Teten compiling a collection of analysis and comparisons. He would than reviewed a few homicides from several police departments and then tested himself with them and how he would approach the case by setting up an experiment. Therefore, once he received all of the data he would prepare a tentative description of the perpetrator (psychologytoday.com. n.d.). Although, he started his study in 1960 it wasn’t until 1970 when in offered his first profile which was the stabbing murder of a woman

Every individual goes through different experiences that mold them into who they are. The combination of their genetic makeup, the environment in which an individual is exposed to, peers, culture, and many other factors determine who they are as an individual (Twenge & Campbell, 2016). This is also what is considered to be an individual’s personality. It is the greatest influence on how an individual will react in any given situation; not everyone will react the same in any situation. Personality is the recurring patterns of thoughts, behaviors, and feelings that can be seen across all situations and time (Twenge & Campbell, 2016, p. 6). If an individual’s personality includes being highly extraverted, then reactions and responses should be

There are many different aspects to consider when an individual is trying to see what career best suits them and who they are as a person. Some people are very strong and confident in who they are and what aspirations they want to see accomplished in their lives. Others are not so sure of themselves or have no direction in where they would like to see themselves after high school or college. In these extreme cases, one concept that people use that assist individuals in finding themselves and what they want to do with their life is by taking the Myers Briggs assessment. I took the Myers Briggs test and found it extremely interesting due to the personality traits that were given to me. I was given the traits ISFJ, which stands for introverted,

The Meyers-Brigg Type Indicator gave me the personality type INFJ for the Major and Career Development class. When I took the test at the beginning of the semester for my freshmen seminar, I got ISFJ. While I got different scores from the two times, the tests were both accurate and can tell me the same overall results.

Medicine and nursing is a constantly evolving field. Physician Larry Dossey notes this evolution of health and healing by delineating it into three different eras. Era I deals with the physical body. The mind and or brain is treated to the physical body. Era II the mind took its own shape and it was realized that the mind could affect the physical body. Era III extends the mind to affecting those that we don't touch through non local connections ("Dr. Larry Dossey's official website," n.d.). In nursing we are taught to care for the whole patient in a holistic perspective. While all three Era’s are used in medicine and nursing, Era II and III are the most holistic of the healthcare era’s identified by Dossey.

How would you describe yourself? How do you categorize others? Well, nobody is exactly the same. One way to discern if two people are similar is by taking personality tests. I recently took the Myers-Briggs personality test twice, and I was categorized as Extroverted, Sensing, Feeling, and intuition- or the "provider"- and Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, and intuition- or "the supervisor". The letters in these types stand for different things as well as associate with different parts of your character. The first letter is either E or I, an acronym for introverted or extroverted. Introverts recharge by being alone and having time to process, while extroverts feel energized while with others. The next letter is N or S for intuition or Sensing.

Have you ever taken the Myers-Briggs personality test, and received results that did not match your personality, at all? The complete opposite happened to me when I took it. The personality test from "16Personalities", labeled me as "The Mediator" otherwise known as the "INFP" personality, it also had an overview article that described how INFPs make choices along with the quality of their relationships, and their ability to think and distach from reality for hours on end. My results described me as an introvert, a person who follows their intuition and feelings, as well as someone who looks at the future rather than the present. I believe that the personality test described me accurately, because of the fact that I listen to others more than I speak to them, I daydream and think about the future more than I talk, and how I am introverted until I 'm around my close group of friends, then I am

The Emotional Assessment Personality Test reviewed and scored my personality in six different areas. There were about one hundred questions, and I was to rate how each question related to myself. After completion of the Emotional Assessment Test my top rated personality trait is Conscientiousness (Condon, n.d.). Though this was my highest scoring trait, I only ranked about the seventieth percentile. This indicates that I am somewhat conscientious. I typically set and am deliberate about goals, but I can also live in the moment (Condon, n.d.).

When I took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, my result was the description of ISTJs, Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging. From these results, ISTJs are inspectors with an acute awareness of what is right and wrong, especially when it relates to their interests or responsibility. This assessment does resemble my personality without a doubt. The ISTJs process a devotion to duty, and their motto is punctuality. I agree I have a dedication to duty and am a stickler for punctuality with the exception to reasonable cause. I like to be at places on time, and hate running late. I like to finish projects ahead of schedule. I cannot stand waiting for a person that is running behind without a good reason. It also annoys me if I must work with an individual who constantly

A personality assessment is a method of examining and knowing human personality traits, this means getting to know the characteristics of various individuals such as behavior’s and social affiliations, to actualize this, we will be applying the Myers – Briggs Types Indicator (MBTI), of emotional intelligent (EI)

State-Trait Depression Inventory (STDI) was used to measure depression (Spielberger, 2003). A 20-item questionnaire was administered that corresponds to the depression subscale of State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI). It employed a four-point Likert scale with 1 meaning “almost always” and 4 meaning “almost never”. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the scale in the present study is 0.93.

Through the article, the definition of a person who is multiple personality can be found inside. Which is “she has three different personalities, but she’s still the same person and was raised in such-and such a day and was raised in such-and-such a town, and so on.”[ Reference to Mind and Body- Personal identity (page 187).] We have many questions about the multiple personality after reading this article. Her own personality is existing or not when the vice-personality replace her and control her body? The vice-personality can be counted as a personal identity or not?

Trait model is developed by Konstantin Vasily Petrides(2001). It encompasses behavioral dispositions and self perceived abilities and is measured through self report.

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'A psychological test is any procedure on the basis of which inferences are made concerning a