personality inventory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpersonalityandinventory
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personality
noun
uk/ˌpɜː.sənˈæl.ə.ti/us/ˌpɝː.sənˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the type of person you are, shown by the way you behave, feel, ...
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inventory
noun
uk/ˈɪn.vən.tər.i/us/ˈɪn.vən.tɔːr.i/
a detailed list of all the things in ...
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Thepersonalityinventorywas introduced via a battery of bipolar adjective, or semantic differential, questions.
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The level of self-esteem and self-worth were investigated via apersonalityinventory.
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Information on potential psychological background factors was gathered via interviews, questionnaires and apersonalityinventory.
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The first involved pencil-and-paper responses topersonalityinventoryquestions with the subjects being asked to make judgements about how students at other universities would answer a series of questions.
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Four retests of apersonalityinventory.
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A broad-bandwidth, public domain,personalityinventorymeasuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models.
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It is developed to provide apersonalityinventoryunder time constraints.
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Some personality inventories take very different approaches, basing themselves on specific psychological or biological theories.
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Additional studies are needed to determine whether traits measured by other personality inventories show disturbances in recovered women.
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Most personality inventories have some measure of honesty built in.
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The studies in adulthood consisted of interviews, questionnaires, personality inventories, and health assessments.
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Although the test was designed too late for it to be used operationally, the test was highly influential in the development of later personality inventories with measures of neuroticism.
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