Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures

What to Consider When Using TRI Data

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Comparing Brand Personality Measures:

Assessing adolescent personality pathology.

BACKGROUND Personality pathology constitutes a major form of psychopathology in adolescents. AIMS To examine the reliability and validity of a Q-sort instrument for assessing adolescent personality pathology designed for clinically experienced informants. METHOD A sample of 294 randomly selected psychiatrists and psychologists each provided data on a current patient, aged 14-18 years. Clini...

Online Personality Assessment: Equivalence of traditional and WWW personality measures

On-line personality tests are increasingly being used in a number of areas, from psychological research to commercial testing services, and interest in them seems to be growing. In addition to those who are professionally concerned with psychometric testing, people in general (or at least a sizeable number of Internet users) seem to be fascinated by the topic. There are newsgroups and other dis...

A dimensional approach to assessing personality functioning: examining personality trait domains utilizing DSM-IV personality disorder criteria.

BACKGROUND This study compared a dimensional, trait domain approach to characterizing personality pathology with the traditional polythetic approach with respect to their associations with interpersonal functioning and personality traits from the five factor model. METHODS Psychiatric inpatients (N=1476) were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II personality disord...