Personality Profile Testing
Personality profile testing is used to help determine a person's basic behavioral characteristics. The information achieved through such testing can be applied in many aspects of the workplace, including recruitment, training and organization within a company.
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Early History
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The idea of personality types dates back to the Greek physician Hippocrates in 450 B.C. He believed that the body's four "humors"---blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile---affected different people in different ways, creating various personality types.
Modern Adaptation
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In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt defined the clear separation between the body and personality. He believed that although earlier theorists were correct about individuals having different temperaments, those temperaments were not created by bodily fluids.
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Personality Profiles
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Personality became a popular area of study among psychologists in the early 20th century. Many theorists developed ideas that identified personality types based on combinations of personal characteristics.
Testing
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Tests such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the "Big Five" Factors Personality Model and Keirsey's Temperament Sorter Model ask a series of questions to determine a set of personality traits. A person's unique combination of traits determines his or her personality type.
Results
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Most personality profile tests use categories that fit under the "Big Five" personality traits. These dimensions, sometimes referred to as "OCEAN," are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
Considerations
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No personality type is considered superior to others. Although individuals with different personality types may have different strong points, all types are considered equal.
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