Practical: Personality Diagnostics

Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Practical: Personality Diagnostics

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The goal of this practical is to explore the personality diagnostic methods used in the trait paradigm. The trait paradigm is one of the most popular paradigms within personality research and personality diagnostics in practice. The goal of the practical is for students to write a personality report about a person they know well. This person has to fill in a personality questionnaire. At the same time, students are to fill in an observer's personality questionnaire about this person. Students learn how this information is processed and how t- values can be calculated. Based on this information, students will write a report in which they describe the results in accordance with personality research, but also in a way that is understandable for academic non-psychologists, such as doctors, jurists, social workers or teachers.

Doelstellingen van dit vak

Knowledge about: Personality assessment, self and observer reports of personality, taking and interpreting personality questionnaires and observer reports, calculating personality scores (T-values), trait / multivariate paradigm, reporting the results in a formal report.

Aanbevolen literatuur

Ashton, M. C. (2013). Individual differences and personality (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Elsevier Academic Press; Costa, P. T., & Piedmont, R. L. (2003). Multivariate assessment: NEO PI- R profiles of Madeline G: Self, partner, and an integrated perspective. In Wiggins, J. S. (Ed.), Paradigms of personality assessment (pp. 262–280). New York: Guilford; De Vries, R. E., Lee, K., Ashton, M. C. (2008). The Dutch HEXACO personality inventory: Psychometric properties, self–other agreement, and relations with psychopathy among low and high acquaintanceship dyads. Journal of Personality Assessment, 90, 142–151. doi: 10.1080/00223890701845195; Piedmont, R.L. (2005). Understanding personality and its assessment from a trait perspective (pp. 65-90). In B.T. Erford (Ed.), The counsellor’s guide to clinical, personality, and behavioural assessment. Lahaska, PA: Lahaska/Harcourt-Brace.
IPN2137
Periode 1
2 sep 2024
25 okt 2024
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Studiepunten: 
0.0
Taal van de opleiding: 
Engels
Coördinator:
  • L.K. Goller
Onderwijsmethode: 
Assignment(s), Lecture(s), Paper(s), Skills, Training(s)
Evaluatiemethoden: 
Final paper
Trefwoorden: 
Personality assessment, self and observer reports, reporting on results, trait paradigm, questionnaires.