Personality tests, psychology tools
Personality can be defined as a set of characteristics and features that distinguish each subject and that make it unique, their thinking, ideals, the temperament and self-perception that it possesses themselves are factors that constitute it, throughout historyPsychology has tried to reveal and interpret what are the factors that determine and precede the construction of personality, although it is true there are several personality types that exist among them the phlegmatic, choleric, blood and melancholic personality because human beings areunique, they share characteristics but personality is part of the identity and their own and unrepeatable identity of each subject. (Ink Condori, 2019)
In relation to the aforementioned, there have been several authors who have made contribute relevant and significant within the study of the personality of man among them Freud author of the psychoanalytic theory of personality who argued that personality is a construct of three entities that generally They remain in conflict, being this process that allows the construction of personality. These entities are the ID, the ego and super ego, another personality theory is that raised by Alfred Adler who said that the personality is constituted by two factors that are They cohesive in the construction of personality and these are the traits and characteristics inherited (inheritance and genetic) and on the other hand the experience acquired through the interaction that the individual has with other people that allow him to mold his behavior based on social norms and the apprehension of behaviors of individuals that constitute the means in which the subject is develops. (Ovidio, 2013, p. 1)
So for the study of personality there have been countless tests and evaluations through tools such as tests that allow you to measure several aspects such as intelligence, personality, behavior and different disorders that cause conditions to the human being, so it is soThat psychological tests are considered tools or instruments that support their veracity with scientific bases, in the same way the personality tests are tools implemented by psychology professionals in order to evaluate attitudes, skills, emotions, sensations that is, they try to describe the totalityof the essence of the human psyche and the factors that determine personality, behavior and behavior.
The use of psychological tests or tests that evaluate personality date back to antiquity from studies carried out by Kraepelin 1892 cited in (Anastasi & Urbina, 1998, p. 44) who "used this technique to study the psychological effects of fatigue, hunger and drugs and concluded that all these agents increase the relative frequency of superficial associations". That is, Kraepelin studies allowed us to understand that behavior, behavior and especially personality are subject to external factors that detonate, trigger or precede a certain way of being and behave, from these studies the gap that has been opened isextensive, because from these studies several types of personality tests have been implemented and two important categories stand out among them.
Projective tests are psychological tools that allows evaluating aspects, characteristics of personality and behavior based on the unconscious aspects of the psyche, this type of psychological tools is based on the use of cards, graphics and drawings that allow itEvoke the subject unique features of his personality, at the same time the personality questionnaires that are generally constituted by a series of questions that present several alternatives that the evaluated must choose according to their criteria and that allow to identify some pattern of alteration or disorder that affectsdirectly the subject’s behavior and personality. (Genain & Lerond, 2016)
Thus, to briefly cite several exemplifications of tests or personality tests we have the deductive, factorial, empirical and mixed tests initially one of the first tests or tests used for personality evaluation was Woodworth’s personal data sheet the same as the same asIts purpose was to identify disorders and alterations associated with personality This test consisted of 90 items of characteristic signs and symptoms of pathologies and disorder that are according to Roman Virgin (2019, page. 350) "Somatization, depression, anxiety, hostility, psychoticism, interpersonal sensitivity, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and compulsive obsessive symptoms". In turn, they consist of 5 ranges that allowed the magnitude and degree of inference to beEmpirical personality tests, in the same way the Woodworth data sheet is a personality test that belongs to the deductive test group.
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