self-report inventory

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 106486274)
    is a type of: personality assessment, personality inventory - a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: self-report personality inventory

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