Recommended Test For Scientific Validity: About
Recommended Test For Scientific Validity: About
Big Five Personality Test: The general consensus in academic psychology is that
there are five fundamental personality traits. This model is assumed in most
personality research, and is the basis of many of the most well regarded tests
employed by psychologists who maintin close connections with academia. The "big
five" tend to not be popular in consumer focused personality assessment or self-
help because to many people the feedback of the model seems relatively basic.
This test uses public domain scales from the International Personality Item Pool.
Open Extended Jungian Type Scales: The system of personality types proposed by
Carl Jung (1921) and later refined by C. Myers and I. M. Briggs has become an
extremely widely used personality theory in self-help, business management,
counselling and spiritual development contexts, but it is not commonly used in
academic research where, like all type theories, it is treated sceptically. The
system produces 16 personality types on the basis of four dichotomies and is the
system used in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Keirsey Temperament Sorter
instruments, among many others. The OEJS is a free and open source measure of
the four dichotomies which yields an equivalent result to the usual tests.
Other tests
Musical Preferences Test: Rate clips of music to calculate your preferences for
musical styles.
Artistic Preferences Scale: Rate paintings to find out what your preferences are
for art in terms of style and content.
Full Scale IQ Test: An IQ Test measuring across the full spectrum of human
abilities.
IIP RIASEC Markers: The Holland Codes (the acronym RIASEC refers to the six
Holland Codes) is a typology of occupations that groups jobs into six categories and
describes the different personality characteristics of people who are inclined
towards each category. Since its developed by John L. Holland in the 1950s the
theory has become dominant one in the field of career counselling and it has been
incorporated into most of the assessment you might take at a university career
planning centre. The RIASEC Markers from the public domain Interest Item Pool
were developed by James Rounds and colleagues in 2008 for use in psychological
research.
Short Dark Triad: The "dark triad" is a name for three personality traits that are
commonly seem as malicious or evil: narcissism, machiavellianism and
psychopathy. The study of these three traits together as the dark triad became
popular in the 2000s. In 2011, Delroy Paulhus and Daniel Jones published the Short
Dark Triad (SD3) as a single short test to measure all three traits at once.
Protestant Work Ethic Scale: There is sociological theory that Northern European
countries developed faster in the industrial revolution than southern ones because
of the additudes towards work promoted by Protestantism (versus Catholicism).
This idea has been taken by some psychologists who believe that individuals can
have different levels of Protestant work ethic.
Open DISC Assessment Test: The DISC personality model is a system that divides
people into four personality types. The model is promoted commercially by
several different orginizations for use in the workplace.
Four Temperaments Test: If you had asked a well educated western person in
1850 to describe themselves, they would have responded using the language of the
four temperaments, an extension of the ancient four humours theory of medicine
to personality by Greek physician Galen (129–216 AD). The four temperaments as
the accepted way to describe personality was vanquished by the development of
psychology after 1900, but recently they have seen a resurgence and been
promoted in spiritual and self-help contexts.
"What character are you?" test: This brief personality quiz will compare your
traits to a selection of fictional characters.
Exposure Based Face Memory Test: Measure of face memory and face blindness.
Disclaimer
All of these tests are provided for educational and entertainment uses only. They
are not clinically administered and as such the results are not suitable for basing
important decisions off of. These tests are also not infallible, if the results say
something about you that you don't think is true, you are right and it is wrong.
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