personality assessment — ▪ psychology Introduction the measurement of personal characteristics. Assessment is an end result of gathering information intended to advance psychological theory and research and to increase the probability that wise decisions will be… … Universalium
Personality psychology — studies personality based on theories of individual differences. One emphasis in this area is to construct a coherent picture of a person and his or her major psychological processes (Bradberry, 2007). Another emphasis views personality as the… … Wikipedia
Personality test — Diagnostics The four temperaments as illustrated by Johann Kaspar Lavater MeSH … Wikipedia
Personality disorder not otherwise specified — Personality disorder, unspecified Classification and external resources ICD 10 F60.9 ICD 9 301.9 … Wikipedia
Personality Disorders — Even though upsetting behavior is as old as the human condition, systematic attention to disorders of the personality appears relatively late in the development of psychiatry. On the whole, the asylum generation of psychiatrists had little to… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Construct validity — In science (e.g. social sciences and psychometrics), construct validity refers to whether a scale measures or correlates with the theorized psychological scientific construct (e.g., fluid intelligence ) that it purports to measure. In other words … Wikipedia
Construct (philosophy of science) — An object s center of mass is certainly a real thing, but it is a construct (not another object) A construct in the philosophy of science is an ideal object, where the existence of the thing may be said to depend upon a subject s mind. This, as… … Wikipedia
Personal construct theory — Construct theory (PCT) is a psychological theory of human cognition. Eddington said, Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience. George Kelly, the psychologist and creator of personal construct theory pushed this idea two… … Wikipedia
Self-defeating personality disorder — Personality disorders Cluster A (odd) Paranoid · Schizoid Schizotypal … Wikipedia
Borderline personality disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F60.3 ICD 9 301.83 … Wikipedia
Hypostatic model of personality — Concepts Personality aspect (hypostasis) Personality dimension Personality axis Intrapersonal relation Interpersonal relation Originators Charles Sanders Peirce William James Aaron Rosanoff … Wikipedia