Essays on Personality Test

1. Summarize Journal Articles The article “Florence Nightingale: Her Personality Type” by Dossey (2010) examines the famous nurse Florence Nightingale according to her personality type. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Dossey determines that Nightingale was an IITJ (introverted-intuitive-thinking-judging) personality. The author worked from a collection of Nightingale’s own written work and her letters, as well as her history. Dossey breaks Nightingale’s personality down into these four factors, using her life and work as a template to explain those personality traits. For instance, Nightingale is determined to be introverted due to her desire to be alone in ...

Learning Style

The two learning style tests that I took were Whatismylearningstyle and The VARK Questionnaire. Under the Whatismylearningstyle Test 1, the learning styles are categorized under auditory, visual, tactile, global, analytic, or kinaesthetic styles. These learning styles divide the way different people learn and depend on certain sense, such as auditory or visual over others. On the other hand The VARK Questionnaire divides the learning styles into different strategies that are implemented by different people for learning. Some of the strategies that are listed under VARK are visual, read/write, aural, kinesthetic, and multimodal. After taking the Whatismylearningstyle learning test the ...

Psychological testing was developed to examine the cognitive and behavioral aspects of a patient. A variety of tests have been created to evaluate the individual to determine either the diagnosis of the individual or simply to attain an assessment or evaluation of the individual. Each test discussed below can provide advantages to the forensic setting. The validity and reliability of these tests have been extensively evaluated and are discussed. 1. Mental Status Exam The Mental Status Exam (“MSE”) is used to evaluate a patient’s mental functions and behaviors. The MSE was created as a tool for clinical psychologists ...

Introduction

Personality checks, projective approaches in analysis, and an indulgent of measures of Personality, welfares, and authorities are all included in the measures of emotional state and interactive operating. Personality is defined as the relating of structures and personal pleasures that divulge to the distinctiveness of an individual. A personality test is used to measure a person's character. These apparatuses are each objective which means that the results are sealed to responsiveness.

Types of Objective Personality Traits

There are two principle types of actual personality qualities: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and Myers-Briggs. The MMPI is jagged on character feature and psychopathology. The assessment ...

Abstract

One of the most prevalent addictions in our society that has far-reaching social, economic and psychological ramifications is alcoholism. At least 16.3 million Americans who are above 18 years have Alcohol Use Disorder as at 2014. However, not everyone who consumes or excessively consumes alcohol ends up with alcohol use disorder. This study speculates that persons with alcohol addiction have an inherently addictive personality and goes ahead to propose a study to investigate it. Using a random sample, a two group-study will be implemented. Personality test will be used to collect information on addictive personality. A t-test for two-groups ...

Introduction

The Jung Typology Personality Test was taken and the results indicated that my personality type is the INTJ (Introvert, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging). The current discourse hereby aims to respond to the following questions based on the results of the personality test, in conjunction with one’s assessment of the manner by which my personality type affects my career, motivation, as well as evaluation of my strengths and weaknesses as deemed applicable in current or future jobs.

How does my personality type affect my career and effectiveness at my job?

My personality type, the INTJ, was revealed to be exhibiting preponderances for areas that include the following: “requiring intensive intellectual efforts, presenting ...

The result of the personality test that was taken showed that I am an INTJ, which stands for Introvert, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging. INTJs have been described in the personality test results as someone who is more laid back, definite, and self-confident . This is their key strengths. Their key weaknesses, on the other hand, include their inability to appreciate the value of certain communication processes, which as a result, limits their ability to engage in deeper and more meaningful relationships. For the most part, I agree with what the website said about INTJs. Most of it was true and ...

Abstract

One of the most prevalent addition in our society that has far reaching social, economic and psychological ramifications is alcoholism. At least 16.3 million Americans who are above 18 years have Alcohol Use Disorder as at 2014. However, not everyone who consumes or excessively consumes alcohol ends up with alcohol use disorder. This study speculates that persons with alcohol addiction have an inherently addictive personality and goes ahead to propose a study to investigate it. Using a random sample, a two group-study will be implemented. Personality test will be used to collect information on addictive personality. A t-test for ...

Personality tests have been in existence since the 1920s. The validity of personality tests is questionable and a single individual may get multiple results from different personality tests. The subject of this paper is the result of a personality test taken using the International Personality Item Pool Representation known as NEO PI-R. This test focused on five generalized personality traits of individuals such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism. These character traits are also known as the big five and successful individuals have high scores on these five traits. This personality test included ‘sub-personalities’ that build ...

Today, the role of Human Resource Manager has termed as an essential activity that enhances productivity and development of the company. The human resource management involves the practice of hiring and enhancing the employees to make them more valuable and profitable to the organization. It is the responsible of the human resource management for conducting employee relations, hiring, and enhance development and benefits for all employees in the organization. As a human resources manager, I understand it is my duty to direct all the activities of workers in the company. In this report, I will develop, analyze and explain ...

Faking is a challenge in the selection process as it may lead to the rejection of the most suited candidates and the selection of the least suitable (Donovan, Dwight and Schneider, 2013). The outcome of faking in the selection process is that applicants with high personality and other scores may perform poorly in their actual jobs. However, the problem of faking in selection measures is not as big as suggested by critics of personality measures in selection processes. According to Hogan, Barrett & Hogan (2007), a well-structured personality test limits the possibility of faking during the selection process. Their study ...

What selection methods did Bo Dolan use for hiring salespeople?

According to information provided, the Vice President of Sales, Bo Dolan chose to apply the traditional method of shortlisting the candidates based on their average level of match to the requirements for the post as had been listed by the firm. This is the first step, which he followed up with my using personality testing as the main activity of the recruitment process. The Vice President then opted to outsource a firm to perform this duty. The company was called Opus Productivity Solutions, which effected the PDP ProScan, which was the best way to perform the personality test suggested. ...

Part 1

The results of a personality test indicate a similar personality to what I expected. For instance, I do believe that I am an introvert. Based on the test I scored 5 out of 9, which indicates that I am in the 49th percentile hence an introvert. Additionally, I can relate with information regarding my level of conscientiousness achieved (6 out of 9). The personality test has only shown the weaknesses and strengths that I deal with every day. The structuring of the questions used in the test seem to bring out the qualities whether strengths or weaknesses that ...

My friend and I are very close to each other. We are open to each other’s problems and little secrets. She would always help me whenever I need her, and I would do the same for her. Because we are very close friends, we have similar personality types – I think this is the reason why we get along with each other well. We have similar dominant personality traits; according to the results of the personality test, we are both dominantly white. My friend’s score for white is 18 points while my score is 14 points. We ...

Introduction

The stance of continuous increment, development and enhancement are some of the major actions and aspects related to an individual. All of these aspects are some of the essential that found specifically in the career development stance and process. The career development planning is extremely difficult and effective, as it usually based upon such aspects through which powerful actions can be taken into the consideration (Krantz, 1997).

This is an obvious fact that the GOD has awarded every person different thoughts and capabilities that cannot be compare with the one from the others, however there are some aspects that ...

Part A

Details of Decision Making Process and the Tactics Adopted Along With the Attitude towards Risk An initial meeting was conducted by all the team members for the purpose of distributing tasks to different group members which was in accordance with their abilities to handle. The entire distribution of tasks was based upon the Four Color Personality Test (Hartman, 1987). This personality test is being used by many companies these days so as to develop an ideal environment in which the employees give out the best from their productivity panel.

The decision making process was divided within five major ...

The personality of an individual is the unique characteristics that are inherent in a person. These characteristics include a person’s behavior, way of thinking and a person’s interaction with the surrounding environment (Briggs& Peter, 1980). These characteristics are consistent in an individual and thus shape who a given individual is. The characteristics set apart different individuals. There is a common ground or yard stick of determining individuals’ personalities. These yardsticks give room for different individuals to be grouped under one common trait.

MBTI-type inventory is a personality test propounded or developed by Myers Briggs Isabel and her mother Katherine Cook Briggs. The personality ...

Recruitment and Selection Strategies Recommendations

Introduction Every land has its own law the saying goes. In the same breadth, every organization has its own recruitment and selection procedures depending on its goals. For this limousine business, some of the important aspects that need to be considered include workforce requirements in the coming years, forecasted demographic changes, projected workforce needs and government stipulations regarding labor.

Organizational Description

The main objective of the business is to offer Limousine services to the people at considerable prices. The business would operate car hire for necessary functions, and it would be based at Austin, Taxes. Considering the annual budget, the ...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a theoretically crafted personality test based on theory of psychology types. This theory was developed by Carl Jung at the beginning of the 1920s (Kaplan & Saccuzzo, 2013). Jung underlined the distinction between introversion, which refers to the individual’s focus on his/her inner world, and extraversion, which Jung defined as concentration on the outside world (Kalat, 2014). Additionally, he stated that we experience and discover the world via four main ways: sensing, intuition, feeling, and thinking. Sensing refers to gaining knowledge through touch, sight, hearing, and the rest of human senses. Intuition means drawing ...

Ryan is a bright student; he understands lectures, finishes homework early and has an eye for detail. However, Ryan’s test scores do not reflect the diligent effort he puts into studying. His teachers are concerned and same is true for his parents. Ryan has had many sessions with the school counselor who diagnosed him with test anxiety. Test anxiety or anxiety related factors can affect the performance of students in exams and other classroom tasks. A significant body of research exists on the type of stressors on students that implicitly affect test performance. Anxiety-related performance deficits can have a selective ...

Having taken the personality test and answered all the questions, I came to a conclusion that my personality type is ISTJ. I should admit that the information describing my features almost coincide with my own vision of my character. Among 16 types this one suits me the best. I was pleased to find out that several U.S. presidents had the same personality type as I have. George Washington and George H. W. Bush are those people who, to my mind, possessed the same qualities that I have. I see George Washington as a very intelligent, energetic and persistent man, who ...

Introduction

Organizations operate in unpredictable and dynamic environment that is characterized with change in consumer behavior, price fluctuations, political instability and goodwill, and social unrest. All these factors have an effect on the daily operations of the business as they lower performance of the employees, productivity, and cost effectiveness and efficiency of the business. In order to address these challenges, organizations need to devise an effective mechanism that would enable them expand their market niche, increase productivity and profit margin, and integrate technology in the production process so that to remain relevant in the business arena. However, with the current ...

All three tests offer detailed and extensive insight into my personality and the associated traits. Test 1 brands me as someone extrovert, moderately conscientious, less agreeable and not very open to new experiences. Test 2 reinforces these claims as far as Extraversion and Conscientiousness are concerned but it terms me a very open and agreeable person with low tendency to experience negative emotions. The big five personality test (Test 3) rates me on the same parameters but produces some considerable changes in the results compared to other two tests. It indeed calls me a very conventional, very agreeable, relaxed, moderately reliable ...

Over the years, various scientists and researchers have come up with measurement instruments. The aim of such scientists was to come up with tests that could be used to evaluate the quality or status of various human aspects such as intelligence, achievement, personal preferences, personality etc. This paper seeks to discuss various aspects of two measuring instruments i.e. the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the Myers Briggs Personality Test.

Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)

The Scholastic Assessment Test(SAT) is a form of aptitude test. It was first introduced in 1926. The test is published by a nonprofit organization in USA known as the College Board. ...

Abstract

In an effort to find better ways to hire appropriate employees, many businesses today are using personality tests as part of the pre-employment screening process. However, there are many problems involved with using personality tests as part of hiring. Personality tests are risky for both employers and employees and should not be used in the hiring process.

Personality Testing in Employment Pre-Screening:

Employers have long attempted to devise ways to ensure that the most qualified candidates for the job positions they offer are the ones who they hire for those positions. This includes appropriate things such as reviewing resumes, personal interviews, or basic tests ...