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SELF-REPORT PERSONALITY INVENTORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make
Synonyms:
self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("self-report personality inventory" is a kind of...):
personality assessment; personality inventory (a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-report personality inventory"):
California Personality Inventory; CPI (a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.)
EPI; Eysenck Personality Inventory (a self-report personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism))
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; MMPI (a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items)
16 PF; Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (a self-report personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the 16 personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits)
