| personality test | any test that is intended to assess personality |
| personality | the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual, their different reactions reflected their very different personalities, it is his nature to help others |
anal personality
anal retentive personality | (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized by meticulous neatness and suspicion and reserve, said to be formed in early childhood by fixation during the anal stage of development (usually as a consequence of toilet training) |
| genital personality | (psychoanalysis) the mature personality which is not dominated by infantile pleasure drives |
| narcissistic personality | personality marked by self-love and self-absorption, unrealistic views about your own qualities and little regard for others |
| obsessiveompulsive personality | personality characterized by a strong need to repeat certain acts or rituals |
| oral personality | (psychoanalysis) a personality characterized either by generous optimism or aggressive and ambitious selfishness, formed in early childhood by fixation during the oral stage of development |
| cult of personality | intense devotion to a particular person |
personality inventory
personality assessment | a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits, a personality inventory is a direct test of personality, as contrasted with a projective test |
selfeport personality inventory
selfeport inventory | a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make |
California Personality Inventory
CPI | a selfeport personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI, consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc. |
Eysenck Personality Inventory
EPI | a selfeport personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism) |
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
MMPI | a selfeport personality inventory consisting ofitems that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with, many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items |
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
PF | a selfeport personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits |
class stratum
social class
socio-economic class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status, the working class, an emerging professional class |
| personality | a person of considerable prominence, she is a Hollywood personality |
| personality disorder | inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior |
antisocial personality disorder
sociopathic personality
psychopathic personality | a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect, capable of violent acts without guilt feelings (`psychopathic personality' was once widely used but was superseded by `sociopathic personality' to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now `antisocial personality disorder' is the preferred term) |
schizotypal personality
schizoid | characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia |
split personality
multiple personality | a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge |