Assessing personality

Assessing personality Major Categories of Personality Measures of the Category of Personality Measures
Identify a specific assessment in each category of personality measure (or process of assessment).
Myers-Briggs
This assessment approach entails responding to the already set questions, which normally aids in establishing an individual’s tendencies within the four categories (Daisley, 2011). These four categories comprise of;
Favorite world: Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I)
Information: Sensing (S) or Intuition (I)
Decisions: Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
Structure: Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
An individual’s response prompts his character assigned to a particular group encompassing of various traits, which is his/her Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (Daisley, 2011). For illustration, suppose a person’s dominant traits are extroversion, sensing, thinking and judging, then the MBTI’s is ESTJ. This approach normally has 16 diverse options that constitute Myers-Briggs model. Primarily, these options almost best describe each test taker’s personality with heightened accuracy. However, due to humanity’ complexity its may sometimes fail to offer full description of the intended personality (Daisley, 2011).
Myers-Briggs’ model comprises of a table bearing 16 options with the initials of an already established traits.
MBTI Type
Description
1
ISTJ
The Duty Fulfillers
2
ESTJ
The Guardians
3
ISFJ
The Nurturers
4
ESFJ
The Caregivers
5
STP
The Mechanics
6
ESTP
The Doers
7
ESFP
The Performers
8
ISFP
The Artists
9
ENTJ
The Executives
10
INTJ
The Scientists
11
ENTP
The Visionaries
12
INTP
The Thinkers

13
ENFJ
The Givers
14
INFJ
The Protectors
15
ENFP
The Inspirers
16
INFP
The Idealists
Big Five assessment
This approach mainly utilizes five categories contrary to Myers-Briggs and its assessment entails scrutinizing an individual’s conduct (Thalmayer et al. 2011). However, since its invention to date, studies contend that specialists have extended its coverage to include details after identifying an individual’s conduct. These categories encompass,
Openness
Contentiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Big Five’s approach normally has a scale having a range of 0 to 100 where a test taker can adequately compare his score with the already set range (Thalmayer et al. 2011). Contrary, Myers-Briggs’ emphasis aims at fine details such as the age of the test taker.
The broad categorization of the personalities entails;
Five Personality category
Low Score
High Score
Openness
Conventional
Original
Contentiousness
Disorganized
Reliable
Extraversion
Reserved
Social
Agreeableness
Forgiving
Critical
Neuroticism
Calm
Insecure
Six Factor Personality Questionnaire (SFPQ)
It is an adult personality measure mainly applicable in working setting or during counseling sessions. Primarily, this extends the popular Big 5 approach to augment its reliability and validity (Thalmayer et al. 2011).
SFPQ approach basis its argument on dividing Contentiousness scale into Industriousness and Methodicalness. This helps in covering of more detailed aspects of human behavior contrary to the “ Big 5” (Thalmayer et al. 2011)
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Do you think it is really possible to accurately measure someone’s personality? Why or why not?
Besides the established approaches meant for determining an individual’s personality, humanity due to diverse aspects especially the environment, thus yield to be complex. Hence, the approaches fail in defining exactly one’s character or yield to erroneous results.
What factors might influence the outcome of a personality assessment?
Diverse levels of the five “ Big 5” aspects that might lack adequate criterion to gauge and label them as necessitated (Thalmayer et al. 2011).
Neuroticism
Extroversion
Openness
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness

References
Daisley, R. J. (2011). Considering personality type in adult learning: Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in instructor preparation at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Performance Improvement, 50(2), 15-24. doi: 10. 1002/pfi. 20196
Thalmayer et al. (2011). Comparative validity of Brief to Medium-Length Big Five and Big Six Personality Questionnaires. Psychological Assessment, 23(4), 995-1009