Supported by National Institute of Mental Health, USPHS, Grant M-4186 and by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USPHS, Grant I POI HD-01762-02

Three experiments evaluated the effects of differential personality information revealed in an employment interview on ratings of applicant job suitability and expected performance. Occupation, desirability of applicant self-referent style, and experience level of applicants were also varied. (Author/SS)

Factor analytic convergence of Wiggin's MMPI content scales and the author's unpublished Differential Personality Inventory (DPI) were studied. A varimax rotation yielded seven dimensions: health problems; interpersonal conflict; impulse expression vs. religiosity; denial; depressed withdrawal; cognitive dysfunction; and familial problems. Results…

Examined the usefulness of subtle personality scales in which test respondents are provided with knowledge and motivation to distort self-presentation. Results indicated that subtle scales were not superior when faking occurred. Scores under these faking conditions were less valid, failing to support the utility of disguised approaches. (Author)

Starting with the premise that the construct-oriented approach is the only viable approach to personality assessment, this paper considers five propositions. First, a prerequisite to generalizable and valid psychometric measurement of personality rests on the choice of broad-based constructs with systematic univocal definitions. Next, measures…

This study was designed to identify kinds of information leading to increased accuracy of clinical judgments. Results confirm the feasibility of increasing accuracy in meaningful clinical judgment tasks through practice and of studying clinical judgment by using construct-oriented personality scales to which targets bear a substantive…

The content scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), designed to assess substantive dimensions of psychopathology, were evaluated through responses of 221 undergraduates. Results indicate that the convergent and discriminant validity of MMPI-2 content scales are compromised by substantial confounding general variance.…

Study investigated the validity of several scales from the Differential Personality Inventory, a personality questionnaire designed to measure a number of variables relevant to psychopathology. (Authors)

Discusses the employment interview as a method of studying the personality characteristics of job applicants. Describes two studies that indicated a substantial degree of agreement and accuracy in the conceptions held by students and by professional employment interviewers regarding the personality characteristics of personnel managers and…

The reliabilities and validities of true-false and forced-choice formats in personality assessment were compared. (Author)

Reports the effectiveness of two methods of normalizing distributions of discrete test score data using scores of 971 Ontario high school students. Concluded that normalization by ranks is preferred over cumulative methods for use in situations in which a statistical procedure is sensitive to violations of normality. (Author)

A model designed to account for major factors on personality questionnaires is proposed and evaluated using the Differential Personality Inventory. Two respondent processes are postulated: sensitivity to the underlying desirability of items, and threshold for responding desirably. (Author/JKS)

Presented a distinction between concepts of face validity and item subtlety. Trait categories were differentially accessible to individual judges. Higher criterion validities were associated with less subtle and more face-valid items. Results support a rational approach to test construction and emphasize the use of relevant test item content.…

A basic structure approach is proposed for obtaining multidimensional scale values for attitude, achievement, or personality items from response data. The technique permits the unconfounding of scale values due to response bias and content and partitions item indices of popularity or difficulty among a number of relevant dimensions. (Author/BH)