PSYC35H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Psychasthenia, U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Rating, Neuroticism
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Lecture 2 - methods of personality: gregory boyle & edward helmes. Their economy, apparent ease of use and interpretation, and freedom of the need for trained interviewers provide advantages that often outweigh benefits of other approaches to personality assessment. Although other methods, including objective tests (t-data) measures such as the objective. For many users of personality assessment instruments, test construction methods are irrelevant or of little interest. The methods used do directly relate to the content of measures and influence how the instruments should be interpreted. The assumptions made and the choice of procedures used during the process of refining and selecting items very much determine the final product. The work of cattell is notable for its empirical use of the inductive-hypothetico-deductive factor- analytic method used to identify items that were deemed to reflect personality traits as expressed and structured in the trait lexicon of the english language.
