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Assignment On Guidance and Counselling Personality Test BY T. Kanaga Sundari 19BDMT12

This document discusses personality tests and their uses. It defines personality as the dynamic organization of systems that determine a person's unique adjustment to their environment. Personality tests measure personality traits objectively through methods like questionnaires, checklists, interviews and observations or subjectively through projective techniques like inkblots tests. The results of personality tests can help counselors better guide individuals by understanding their personality traits, abilities, and areas of improvement. Personality tests are also useful for career guidance by matching personality traits to occupations and predicting job success and progress.

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Assignment On Guidance and Counselling Personality Test BY T. Kanaga Sundari 19BDMT12

This document discusses personality tests and their uses. It defines personality as the dynamic organization of systems that determine a person's unique adjustment to their environment. Personality tests measure personality traits objectively through methods like questionnaires, checklists, interviews and observations or subjectively through projective techniques like inkblots tests. The results of personality tests can help counselors better guide individuals by understanding their personality traits, abilities, and areas of improvement. Personality tests are also useful for career guidance by matching personality traits to occupations and predicting job success and progress.

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ASSIGNMENT ON GUIDANCE

AND COUNSELLING
PERSONALITY TEST
BY
T. KANAGA SUNDARI
19BDMT12
PERSONALITY
Meaning

The word ‘personality’ is derived from a Latin word ‘persona’ which denotes the mask worn by
the actors while playing their role in the drama.

Personality is the embodiment of physical, emotional, social, mental, moral and other traits of a
human being.

Each letter of the word ‘PERSONALITY’ implies its meaning as follow:

P – Perception capacity

E – Emotional maturity

R – Responsiveness to the situation

S – Sociability

O – Originality

N – Neutrality

A – Appearance (external)

L – Leadership feeling

I – Integrated

T – Tendency

Y – Young (in thinking)

Definition

“Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psycho-phycho-physical


systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment” - Gordon W. Allport

“Personality is that which permits a prediction of what a person would do in a given situation” –
Raymond B. Cattell

Characteristics of personality

● Personality is a whole rather than in parts.


● Personality is unique.
● Personality comparises of heredity and environment.
● Personality is made up of traits. The traits are unique qualities or peculiairties of a person
such as introversion - extroversion, honesty – dishonesty.
● Personality is dynamic. It is ever growing and evolving.
● Personality is organized. It means we know what to do, when to do and how to do.

PERSONALITY TEST
Meaning

Personality testing refers to techniques that are used to accurately and consistently measure
personality. Personality is something that we informally assess and describe every day. When
we talk about ourselves and others, we frequently refer to different characteristics of an
individual’s personality.

Measurement of personality / Testing of personality

Various kinds of techniques are used in psychology to evaluate one’s personality


characteristics and the various personality traits he or she possesses. These techniques will help
to find out the dfects in individual personality also. Hence all techniques can be used to evaluate
dthe individuals personality.
Personality
Measurement
Projective
Non-projective
Technique
techniques
s

Objective
Subjective 1. Rorschach Ink-Blot
1. Personality
Test
1. Case History Inventories
2. Thematic
2. Autobiography 2. Observation
Apperception
3. Questionnaire 3. Check-list
3. Sentence Completion
4. Interview 4. Rating Scale
5. sociogram

Observation

If we want to find out the leadership qualities inherent in him/her, we have to observe his
behaviour in classroom, playground, teamwork in social group activities, extracurricular activities
etc. The observation has to be recorded and analysed in find out the possible leadership qualities in
the student.

Questionarire

A list of questions are given to a student and his personality is assessed through his promptness in
answering the questions.

For example
These are some of the example of Personality test methods.

Uses of Personality tests

⮚ If the counsellor does not evaluate the counsellee’s personality properly, guidance cannot
be provided by him.
⮚ An individual’s success in his education and occupation is determine mainly by his
personality.
⮚ Personality test through interview and observation helps to find out the students who are
least amicable to school, home and society.
⮚ Personality test helps to find out the personality traits of individuals by analysing their
abilities extremely. It helps a person to develop his abilities further.
⮚ Only personality traits are responsible for a person to get an occupation, to do his work
skilfully and attain progress in it. In his book, ‘ Principles of Guidance’, A.J.Jones says that
only personality traits are whole cause for 80 per cent of first job and 75 per cent of
promotion. Like that, 90 cent of loss of jobs is not because of inefficiency but of
inadequency in personality traits. That is, because of less social adjustment and emotional
restlessness.
Thank you

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