1. Psychology
Personality
B.Ed. 2015-16
M.Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professor

2. Unit – VII
Personality

3. Personality: Meaning –
Determinants of Personality: Types
Theory, Trait Theory and
Developmental Theory – Integrated
Personality – Assessment of
Personality: Projective, Non-
Projective techniques and Dream
Analysis.

4. Meaning
• Latin word – persona
• -the mask worn by the actors while playing their role in
the drama
• PERSONALITY
• P – Perception capacity
• E – Emotional maturity
• R – responsiveness to the situation
• S – Sociability
• O – Originality
• N – Neutrality
• A – Appearance (external)
• L – Leadership feeling
• I – Integrated
• T – Tendency
• Y – Young (in thinking)

5. Definition
• Personality is the dynamic
organization within the individual of
those psycho-physical systems that
determine his unique adjustment to
his environment
- Gordon W. Allport

6. Characteristics of Personality
• Whole rather than its parts
• Unique
• Comprises of heredity and environment
• Made up of traits
• Dynamic
• Organized

7. Development of Personality
Physique
• Pituitary Gland
• Thyroid Gland
• Adrenal Gland
• Sex Gland
Chemique
Environment
• Home
• School
• Society
• Cultural Difference
Learning

8. Factors influencing Personality Development
Personality
Factors
Biological
Factors
Physique
Chemique
Nervous System
Sociological
Factors
Home
School
Language
Culture
Psychological
Factors
Intelligence
Motivation
Emotion
Attitude
Interest
Sentiment

9. Theories of Personality
Type Theory
Trait Theory
Type cum Trait Theory

10. Type theory – Hippocrates’ Classification
Choleric Emotionally weak, bodily strong
and easily tempted
Melencholic Emotionally and bodily weak –
Pessimist
Phlegmatic Emotionally strong – able to
control his emotions - bodily
weak – lazy type – always happy
Senguine Bodily strong – Energetic –
control type – an optimist

11. Kretschmer’s Classification
Body Type Body Characteristics Personality Characteristics
Pyknic Fat types, in whom
fat is more than
muscle
Social and helping to
others
Athletic Healthy, balance
between muscles
and bone
development
Energetic, optimist can
adjust to any situation
Asthenic Thin, and lean tall,
no muscle, only
bone
Unsociable, shy,
pessimist and always
alone

12. Sheldon’s Classification
Body Type Body Characteristics Personality
Characteristics
Endomorphy No muscle
development etc.
prominent stomach
Takes everything easy,
sociable and
affectionate
Mesomorphy Balance between
development of
stomach and bones
Likes to work,
interested in
adventurous activities
Ectomorphy Weak, tall, thin Pessimist, unsociable
and alone

13. Jung’s Classification
Introvert
Extrovert
Ambivert

14. Trait Theory – R.B.Cattell
Surface Traits
Source Traits

15. Type-cum-Trait Theory –
Hans J. Eysenck
Introvert Extrovert
Neurotic Psychotic

16. Psychoanalytic Theory
• Id – Pleasure Principle –
Unconscious mind
• Ego – Reality Principle –
Sub-conscious mind
• Superego – Conscience –
Conscious mind

17. Freud’s Psycho-sexual Development
Theory of Personality
Oral Stage
Anal Stage
Phallic Stage
Latency Stage
Genital Stage

18. Freud’s Psycho-sexual Development
Theory of Personality

19. Integrated Personality
• Self-actualized personality
• Emotionally and socially mature
individual
• Well adjusted personality

20. Harmony between five
Aspects of personality
• Harmony between one’s abilities and
capabilities
• Harmony among one’s interest
• Harmony between one’s abilities and interest
• Harmony between one’s self concept and
social constraints
• Harmony between one’s life goals and social
codes of conduct

21. Allport
• Self extension
• Self Objectification
• Be yourself and accept yourself

22. Personality
Assessment
Techniques
Non-projective
Techniques
Subjective Methods
Objective Methods
Projective
Techniques

23. Assessment of Personality
Subjective Methods
Objective Methods
Projective Methods

24. Subjective Methods
Case History
Autobiography
Self-rating
Eliciting verbal responses of the subject –
• Questionnaires
• Attitude Scales
• Inventories
• Interview
• Aptitude Tests
• Interest Inventories

25. Objective Methods
Personality Inventories
Observation
Check list
Rating Scale
Sociogram
Performance and Situational
Tests

26. Projective Methods
Perceptive Technique
(Rorschach Ink-blot Test)
Apperceptive Technique
Thematic Apperceptive Test (T.A.T)
Sentence Completion Test
Story telling and Story Completion Test
Free association and Dream Analysis Test
Productive Technique

27. Self-rating
• Subject rates himself
• Susceptible to distortions due to self-interest
• Rating by others is more objective and valid
• Factors like
personal bias,
generosity error,
inaccuracies due to the ambiguity of the
rating scale
Hallo effect
- affect the reliability and validity of rating

28. Questionnaires
• Device for securing answers to
questions by using an inquiry
form which the respondent fills
in himself. In it, various
important questions regarding
the topic under investigation or
personality traits will find a place
- Good & Hatt

29. Types of Questionnaires
• Closed Form or Restricted
Questionnaire
Yes or No, Short response
• Open Form or Unrestricted
Questionnaire
Free-response or unstructured form

30. Characteristics of a
Good Questionnaire

31. Attitude Scales or Opinionnaire
• Opinion and Attitude are allied but
not Synonymous terms
• Attitude - Inner feeling or belief of a
person towards a particular
phenomenon
• Opinion – what a person says about
his attitude towards some
phenomenon

32. Types of Attitude Scales
•Thurstone Technique of
Scaled Values
•Likert Method of
Summated Ratings

33. Thurstone Technique of Scaled Values
• 20 or more statements – express – groups,
institution, idea or practice
• Submitted – panel of 50 or more judges
• 11 groups – assigning a position to an item
• Disagreement – discarded
• Median scale value – falls between 1 to 11
• Given to the subjects – check - agreement –
responses - quantified

34. Likert Method of Summated Ratings
• Without the panel of judges
• Less time and efforts to construct
• Collecting a number of statements
• Express definite favourableness or unfavourableness
• Approximately equal statements
• Trial test – administrated to the subjects
• Eliminate – ambiguous
• SA, A, U, DA & SDA
• Favourable statements – 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1
• Unfavourable statements – 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
• 50 * 5 = 250 – Most Favourable response
• 50 * 3 = 150 – Neutral attitude
• 50 * 1 = 50 – Most Unfavourable attitude

35. Inventories
Personality Inventories
• Similar to Questionnaire
• Form of statements
• Respondent – mark one among three
positions
• Analysis – nature of the personality
Sl.No. Statements Always Sometimes Never
1 When speaking to
strangers, I feel a bit of
nervousness in me

36. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality (MMPI)
• S.R. Hathaway and J.C. Mekinky
• 550 statements
• True, false and cannot say
• 16 years and older ones
• Nine clinical scales -
 Hypochondriasis (HS)
 Depression (D)
 Hysteria (HY)
 Psychopathetic deviant (Pd)
 Masculinity and feminity interest (Mf)
 Paronia (Pa)
 Psychosthenia (Pt)
 Wschizophrenia (Sc)
 Hypomania (Ma)

37. Bell’s Adjustment Inventory
• Available in two forms – school
students & adults
• School students – 140 items
• Four domains – Family, health,
community and emotions
• 35 items for each domain

38. Interview
• Oral questionnaire
• Interviewer & Interviewee
• Verbal information, face-to-face relationship
• Introductory, Fact finding, Diagnostic or
Prognostic
• Has a Beginning – establish Rapport
• Middle – elicit information regarding personality
traits
• End – terminate the interview on a cordial note
by thanking the interviewee
• Noted down or tape recorded - analysis

39. Types of
Interview
Functions
1.Diagnostic
2.Clinical
3.Research
Number of
Participants
1.Individual
2.Group
3.Single
Interviewer
4.Panel of
Interviewers
Format of
Response
1.Structured
2.Non-structured
1.Non-directive
2.Focused
3.Depth

40. Requisites of a Good Interview
Proper Preparation
Skillful evaluation
Adequate recording and
interpretation

41. Limitations
• An Art and skill – not present in all
• Subjectively involved – biggest
limitation
• Interviewer – dominate or humiliate
• Interviewer – thrust his ideas on the
interviewee

42. Uses of Interview
• Best option to collect information – Children,
senior citizen, patients, illiterate persons and
VIP in the society
• Student admission, filling vacant posts,
student counselling, occupational guidance,
medical counselling and judicial enquiry
• Research – historical studies, clinical studies
and survey

43. Aptitude Tests
• Science, literature as the latent potentialities
or skills
• Converted into special skills
• Potentiality of clerical
• Trained further to write exams in IAS and IPS
cadres
• Group I or II services

44. Measurement of Aptitude
• Differential Aptitude Tests
1. Verbal reasoning
2. Numerical ability
3. Abstract reasoning
4. Space relations
5. Mechanical Reasoning
6. Clerical speed and accuracy
7. Language usage – Spelling and Grammar
First three (1, 2, 3) – measure the functions
related to general intelligence
4, 5, 6 & 7 measure specific aptitudes

45. Interest Inventories
• The tools used for describing and measuring
interests of individuals – Interest Inventories
or Interest Blanks
• Self-report instruments – in which the
individuals note their own likes and dislikes
• Frequently used in educational and
vocational guidance and in case studies
• Defined as eagerness, attention, curiosity,
likes and dislikes

46. Measurement of Interest
E.K.Strong’s Vocational Interest
Blank (SVIB)
G.F.Kuder Preference Record
(KPR)

47. E.K.Strong’s Vocational Interest Blank
(SVIB)
• Classified for men, women, students
and those who left the school long back
• Blank for men – 420 items with 8
divisions
• Subject will indicate – Like (L), Dislike
(D) and Indifference (I) - Symbols
• 40 to 55 minutes
• 17 years of age and above

48. G.F.Kuder Preference Record (KPR)
• High school and college198 items
• Comprises of three preferences
• Ten fields – outdoor, mechanical,
computational, scientific,
persuasive, artistic, literacy, musical,
social service and clerical

49. Observation
• External behaviour of persons in appropriate
situations
• Controlled or uncontrolled
• Expert, purposive, systematic, carefully
focused and thoroughly recorded
• Should be accurate, valid and reliable
• Tools such as check list and score-card, tape-
recorder, thermometers, audiometer, stop-
watch, binoculars etc.

50. Use of Observation
• In descriptive research
• Significant aspects of personality which
express themselves in behaviour
• Physical aspects of school buildings or
students and teachers – through physical
examination, measurement, assessment and
comparison with fixed standards
• In classroom – learning behaviour
• Cumulative record – anecdotal evidence –
research studies

51. Types of Observation
Participant
Non-Participant

52. Requisites of a Good Observation
Proper Planning
Skilful Execution
Recording and
Interpreting
Observation

53. Check List
• Consisting of prepared list of items
• Used to record the presence or absence of
the item
• By checking ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or by inserting the
appropriate word or number
• Matter of fact and not judgement or opinion
• In educational studies
• Educational appraisal studies of school
buildings, text books, facilities available
• Recreation, laboratory, library etc.

54. Rating Scale
• Personality of a individual is not assessed by
himself but by other persons who know the
individual well
• Student – teacher
• Teacher rating, personality rating, testing the
validity of many objective instruments like
paper-pencil inventories of personality &
School appraisal

55. • Limited number of items to which values on a
scale have to be assigned
• The value be represented in the form of a
number or one among a series of worded
descriptions
• Usual to have 5 to 7 points on the scale for
every item to be rated
Highly
emotional
Occasionally
emotional
Socially
average
Very rarely
emotional
Not at all
emotional

56. Limitations
• Hallo – Effect
• Rater frequently carry over one generalised
impression of the person from one rating to
another
• Generosity Error
• Rater develops a tendency to over estimate the
desirable qualities of the rate whom he likes
• Constant Error
• There is a tendency on the part of the rater to
see others as opposite to himself on a trait
• Average Category
• Rater have a tendency to play it safe and may
mark all items in the centre

57. Means of reducing errors
• Hallo – Effect
• Various ratings of different persons made
independently - without being aware – rating
the same person again
• Generosity Error
• By using relatively neutral descriptive terms for
the scale positions rather than evaluative ones
• Constant Error
• To train the raters carefully and make them
aware of the possibility of such bias in rating
• Average Category
• By splitting the middle point into two – above
average and below average

58. Sociogram
• Graphic way of representing the data
• Stars
• Chosen most often – located near the centre of
the diagram and the ones chosen less often are
placed progressively outward
• Isolates
• Not chosen by others – outside
• Y-shape
• Chain
• Circular

59. Performance or Productive
• Performance of the subject -
oWhat he draws
oWhat object he makes of plastic
clay
oHow he plays a role

60. Situational Tests
Psychodrama Sociodrama

61. Psychodrama
• Play a role spontaneously in a situation
• Behaviour is observed by trained observers
• Used to assess the personality of maladjusted
persons
• Director or therapist – organising situations –
subject may express his bottled up emotions
• Central principle – spontaneity of the
individual

62. Sociodrama
• Portrays problem with which the audience is
concerned
• Deals with the problems of the group, its
structure and thinking
• E.g. modern pictures written and directed by
creative thinkers
• They reflect on the screen – corruptions,
nepotism, favouritism and redtapism of the
administrative set up

63. • Projective Techniques
• To evaluate unconscious behaviour of the
individuals
• Total personality of an individual
• By projection
• Relatively indefinite and unstructured stimuli
– provided to the subject – asked to structure
them – way he likes
• Unconsciously projects his own desires,
hopes, fears, repressed wishes, etc

64. Ink-Blot Test
• Hermann Rorschach (1882 – 1922)
• Swiss Psychiatrist - Developed – 1921
• Died – 1922
Test Material
Administration
Scoring
Interpretation

65. Test Material
• 10 cards – Ink-blots Patterns
• Stiff cardboard of 8”*10”
• 5 blots – Black and Grey
(Card No. 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7)
• Two – Black and Red
(Card No. 2 and 3)
• Three – multi coloured
(Card No. 8, 9 and 10)
• Ink-blots – highly unstructured
• Do not have any specific meaning

66. Administration
• Presented at a time in a particular order
• Individual – asked – specify what he/she in it
• Own time and permitted to give any number
of responses he likes
• Experiments take note of the responses given
by the subject
• And the time taken for each card

67. Scoring
• Responses are entered in specific
symbols
• In four columns
Location
Content
Originality
Determinants

68. Location
• Part of the blot with which the subject
associates his response is identified
• Given by symbols
W- whole Blot
D- Large details
d- Small details
s- white spaces

69. Content
• Content of the response realised by the
subject
• Symbols are given
H- Human forms
Hd- Human details
Ad- Animal details
N- Natural objects like rivers, mountains etc
O- Inanimate objects like lamp, shade etc

70. Originality
• Response id original – symbol – O
• If it is popularly recognised by
many individuals – symbol - P

71. Determinants
• Emphasises the manner of
perception
• Symbol
Form – F
Colour – C
Movement – M
Shading - K

72. Scores are entered in a tabular form
Location Content Originality Determinants
Symbols W D d s H A Hd Ad N P O F C K M
Frequency

73. Interpretation
• If the number of W is greater the d – Subject
is considered as mature and intelligent
• If colour is more than movement – subject is
considered as extrovert
• Poor colour naming responses – considered
to indicate lack of emotional control
• If the individual sees human beings, he/she is
regarded as stable
• If animal - Unstable

74. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
• Henry Murray in 1943
• Later – fully developed – C.D.Morgan
• 30 pictures
• Expose human beings - a variety of life situations and
a blank white card
• Total – 31 cards
• Pictures – vague and indefinite
• Four sets of cards suited to different age and sex
groups
• Conducted in two sessions
• Atleast a gap of one day in between
• Using 10 pictures in each session

75. • Set – I – 20 pictures – girls below the age
of 14 years
• Set – II – 20 pictures – boys below the
age of 14 years
• Set – III – 20 pictures – females above
the age of 14 years
• Set – IV – 20 pictures – males above the
age of 14 years

76. Administration
• Pictures are presented at a single time
• Vague and indefinite
• Subject – asked – develop a story to each picture
in a allotted time
• The story of the subject should be centered
round the following question -
o What is happening in the picture?
o What has led to the scene?
o What is being thought of?
o What will happen?

77. Scoring
• Hero of the story
• Theme of the story
• Style of the story
• Content of the story
• Test situation as a whole
• Particular emphasis or omissions
• Subject’s attitude towards authority and sex
• Outcome

78. Sentence Completion Test
• Introduced by Pyane
• Subject – given sentences which he is
encouraged to complete in any way he likes
• Sentences are –
 The future ….
 I fear ….
 I am very ….
 I feel hurt ….
 I dislike …..
 I like ….
 No one …..

79. • Subject gives a clue to certain repressed
desires
• Subject feels to write unco9nsciously reveals
the conscious part of his mind
• Making an interpretation – 3 categories
Positive of healthy responses
Negative or unhealthy responses
Neutral responses
• Useful in applying projective technique to a
group of individuals

80. Story Telling and Story Completion Test
• Children – informed about the beginning of the
story
• Narrating - Father, mother, their son and
daughter – going to a picnic on the banks of a
river
• While parents are preparing food – two children
playing – suddenly, some one screams….
• Person who is being studied asked to complete
it
• Reveal something about his feeling and desires
• Psychologist – traits of personality of the child –
way he finishes the story

81. Free Association Test
• Developed – Jung
• Further elaborated by Kent and Rosanoff
• Involves uttering of a Stimulus word by the
tester
• Subject responds immediately by another word
• Time taken – long – indicate blocks – need some
more probing
• Response – desires personality

82. Dream Analysis
• Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
• Find out – repressed unconscious desires,
emotions and feelings of individual men and
women
• First – psycho-analyst wins the confidence of the
subject
• Subject – asked – take a comfortable position
and recline on a sofa
• Encouraged to talk about his trouble, freely
• Certain point – stops free conversation and
resists in expressing ideas freely
• Many sittings – came to know – significant
factors of personality

83. Analysis of Dream – 5 steps
• Ask the dreamer to describe his dream and
write it out
• Ask the dreamer to list all the components of
the dream, be the people, place, events or
circumstances
• Next – make the dreamer write down all his
associations to each of the dream elements
• Investigator tries to amplify the dream
• Dreamer is asked to think and describe about
yesterday’s events vividly