Personality tests.

1 April 1934

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Vol. 29 (1) , 45-52
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0072804

Abstract

Six personality tests were given to a group of 58 students at Mount Holyoke College. The inference from the study of this group of tests is that the atomistic method of evaluating personality seems to have very little promise. Over and above the isolated expressions which give indications of strength or richness of personality, there are intangible, organizing factors which objective tests have not yet been able to evaluate. An entirely different method of approach, which has been suggested in the Allport-Vernon Scale of Values, seems necessary before one is warranted in spending time on material which has its basis in no consistent, theoretical presuppositions, and which often seems to do little more than bundle together some overt signs and call the result a "scale" or "schedule." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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