Personality Assessment Flashcards
➢ self-report inventories
➢ involve the administration of a standard set of questions or statements to which the examinee responds using a fixed set of option
objective tests
methods of construction for objective tests
content validation
empirical criterion keying
factor analysis
construct validity approach
a) carefully defining all relevant aspects of the variable you are attempting to measure;
b) consulting experts before generating items;
c) using judges to assess each potential item’s relevance to the variable of interest;
d) using psychometric analyses to evaluate each item before you include it in your measure
content validation
- no assumptions are made as to the truth or if the response really corresponds to behavior or feelings.
- – what is important is that members of a particular diagnostic group will tend to respond in the same way
- the utility of an item is determined solely by the extent to which it discriminates among known groups
empirical criterion keying
- atheoretical
- one begins by capturing a universe of items and then proceeds to reduce them to basic elements
exploratory FA
- more theory-driven
- seeking to confirm a hypothesized factor structure (based on theoretical predictions) for the test items
confirmatory FA
- combines many aspects of the content validity, empirical criterion keying, and factor analytic approaches
- [ ] is determined by demonstrating that those who achieve certain scores on the scale behave in non-test situations in a fashion that could be predicted from the scale score
construct validity approach
- published by Hathaway & McKinley in 1943, and still widely used today
- basic purpose was to identify the psychiatric diagnoses of individuals
MMPI and MMPI2
[ ] identify psychological disorders
clinical scales
[ ] contain items empirically related to content area.
content scales
[ ] provide info about person’s approach to testing: checks attempts to fake bad, fake good, etc.
validity scales
another version of the NEOPI-R, known as [ ], is used for observer ratings - can be used to validate or supplement self-report scores.
form r
many clinicians are attracted to the MMPI-2 because of its [ ]
screening abilities
the MMPI-2 is primarily a measure of various symptoms of [ ]
psychopathology
although the NEO-PI-R was developed from a model of “normal” personality, investigators have begun to assess this instrument’s usefulness in clinical sample BUT…
the use of the NEOPI-R for clinical diagnostic purposes remains to be demonstrated.
