Essays on Personality

This section presents findings of the study to investigate the impact of narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy personality on snob consumption behavior and the influence of the psychological antecedents producing snob effect and its association with the consumers’ dark personality. Descriptive statistics will be used to discuss the findings of this...

Arguments for Caution in Using Personality Measurement Arguments for caution in using personality measurement to make inferences have been presented by Mischell (1977) in an evidence-based framework. In fact, Mischell (1977) is one of the ardent critiques of the social-cognitive hypothesis through the detailed discussion of personality traits. Mischell (1977) asserts...

The Five-Factor Model - A Tool for Studying Personality The five-factor model is a tool used for dimensionally studying personality. Aspects of the model considered include the specific variables in the model, other related models, and clinical applications of the model. The quality of the model is evaluated based on five...

Introduction Individuals personal life is influenced by their personalities which defines how one acts or behaves. The theories of personality often address aspects such as types and traits which help in comparing people presenting the notion that there can be some commonalities and individual differences such as the common structure of...

In the discussion surrounding psychological testing there is always a need to establish a distinction between personality tests and ability tests. Personality tests are centered on the process of measuring personal strengths, personality traits, symptoms of distress, attitudinal characteristics, and dynamic motivation. On the other hand, ability tests entail a...

Personality type; Judging (25%) Introverted (6%), Sensing (1%), Feeling (28%)Based on the online test my personality type is ISFJ meaning that I have a slight fondness of introversion over extraversion, I have a marginal preference of sensing than intuition, I have a moderate fondness of feeling rather than thinking, and...

My personality has adapted and changed over time. My personality has changed positively due to the different way I view life since my exposure to higher education. This is due to the following circumstances in the course of my university education: Openness to intellect: My university education has indeed changed my personality...

The MMPI-2-RF includes five validity scales that are linked to modern models and theories of personality and psychopathology and is designed to give the measure of a person taking an attitude test and his/her approach to the test. One of these scales includes the Aggressiveness-Revised scale (AGGR-r) that is designed...

Personality Development Personality is the belief, behavior, and value which makes a person who he or she is (LeVine, 2018). Even though it is recognized at birth, personality continues to develop throughout the person's life (Buss and Plomin, 2014). According to Cervone and Pervin (2015), personality symbolizes the qualities which are consistent...

Personality assessment tests are tests done on individuals to evaluate their strengths and talents.  These tests are very useful especially to employers as it helps them discover the personal strengths of their workers. The tests also help people in finding their life partners, and medical professionals in diagnosing mental health...

Reliability of Raters Reliability of raters entails the consistency of a set of variables to assess the different types of scores' stability. The reliability index of a test score indicates its stability, which may imply the test-retest, internal consistency or inter-rater reliability. Testing reliability of raters can be done through inter-rater...

If market forces of supply and demand are directly dependent on consumer behavior; then there is need to understand human personality in entirety, before linking the same to consumer habits in the markets. On the one hand, behavior has been defined as all individual traits that make someone unique, while...