A general term for psychological tests focusing on a person’s self, emotions, and behavior; also alternate term for projective tests.
Pencil-and-paper tests used to determine the patterns of emotions, behaviors, and attitudes that make up a person’s personality. Most personality tests ask the person taking the test a wide range of questions about their behavior, beliefs, and feelings. The typical inventory consists of a series of statements and asks the test-taker whether each statement holds true for himself or herself. A psychiatrist, psychologist, or mental health worker can draw conclusions about the person’s personality from the responses.
A neuropsychiatric assessment tool, such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, used to identify an individual’s predominant emotional makeup. Personality tests measure adjustment, adventurousness, agitation, anxiety, coping styles, depression, introversion, hypochondriasis, paranoia, and other emotional variables.
Surveys created to identify different personality traits or characteristics. These tests can help recognize psychiatric signs, inherent traits, a person’s level of extroversion or introversion, and their likelihood of developing neurotic conditions.