Personality Assessment - Standards
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Current assessment practice, personality measurement, and rorschach usage by psychologists.

30 Aug 2009 In this study, we investigated current personality assessment practice and attitudes toward Rorschach (Exner, 2003) usage by 215 psychologists. We administered an Internet survey to members of the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) and the ... Read more...

Dimensions of personality: clinicians' perspectives.

30 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: To obtain the opinions and preferences of practising clinicians about the clinical utility of personality scales included within 8 alternative dimensional models of personality disorder for inclusion within an official diagnostic ... Read more...

Impulsivity and personality variables in adolescents with eating disorders.

30 Mar 2009 Impulsivity among individuals with eating disorders (EDs) is associated with severe comorbidities and poor treatment outcome. However, research investigating the construct of impulsivity in EDs is limited. The objectives of the present study were to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personality Assessment - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Current assessment practice, personality measurement, and rorschach usage by psychologists. 30 Aug 2009
• Dimensions of personality: clinicians' perspectives. 30 Mar 2009
• Impulsivity and personality variables in adolescents with eating disorders. 30 Mar 2009
• Detection of overreporting of psychopathology on the Personality Assessment Inventory: a meta-analytic review. 27 Feb 2009
• [Convergent validity of two tests of conscientiousness] 30 Jan 2009
• The Swedish version of the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO-10). Psychometric properties. 14 Jan 2009
• Standardised rating scales in psychiatry: methodological basis, their possibilities and limitations and descriptions of important rating scales. 30 Dec 2008
• Paul Lerner and the heart of assessment: discussion of articles by Handler, Finn, Leichtman, Husain, and Smith. 30 Dec 2008
• Affective temperaments, as measured by TEMPS-A, among nonviolent suicide attempters. 24 Nov 2008
• The Rorschach in the context of performance-based personality assessment. 30 Aug 2008
• Time to re-examine old definitions of nicotine dependence. 30 May 2008
• Comparative validity of the Shedler and Westen Assessment Procedure-200. 30 May 2008
• Development and psychometric evaluation of the Basic Documentation for Psycho-Oncology, a tool for standardized assessment of cancer patients. 30 Mar 2008
• Examination of the impact of ethnicity on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) Fake Bad Scale. Mar 2008
• A note on some measures of profile agreement. 28 Feb 2008
• Correspondence between self-report and interview-based assessments of antisocial personality disorder. 28 Feb 2008
• The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth as a predictor of recidivism in a United Kingdom cohort of adolescent offenders with conduct disorder. 28 Feb 2008
• Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP-118): development, factor structure, reliability, and validity. 28 Feb 2008
• Further investigation of findings reported for the Minnesota sex offender screening tool-revised. 26 Feb 2008
• Comparing Type D personality and older age as correlates of tumor necrosis factor-alpha dysregulation in chronic heart failure. 18 Feb 2008

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Technical information about 'Personality Assessment'

Definition: The determination and evaluation of personality attributes by interviews, observations, tests, or scales. Articles concerning personality measurement are considered to be within scope of this term.

Descriptor UI: D010552

Alternative terms: Personality Assessment; Assessment, Personality; Assessments, Personality; Personality Assessments;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F04.513;

History Note: 68(66)

Technical Notes: by a professional; differentiate from PERSONALITY INVENTORY (by the person himself); DF: PERSONALITY ASSESS