A personality test' aims to describe aspects of a person's character that remain stable across situations.

Types of personality tests include the Rorschach test, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory , Eysenck Personality Questionnaire , Abika Test and the Thematic Apperception Test.

History of Personality Theory

• Greek philosopher/physician Hippocrates recorded the first known personality model basing his four “types” on the amount of body fluids an individual possessed.
• Greek physician Galen expounded upon Hippocrates' theory by tying the type of body fluid (blood, mucus, or bile) to the type of temperament.
• German philosopher Immanuel Kant popularized these ideas by organizing the constructs along the two axes of feelings and activity.
• Wilhelm Wundt proposed that the four temperaments fall along the axes of changeability and emotionality.
• Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung categorized mental functioning into sensing, intuition, thinking, and feeling.
• Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers devised a 16-type indicator of Jung's Psychological Types.

See also

• Projective test
• Psychological testing
• Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• Enneagram

External links

• Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (in German, with a focus on the German version)