Measurement of personality
- Questionnaire method: A list of questions or statements related to some aspect of the feeling, attitude, habit or mode of behaviour are prepared. The respondent is required to indicate his agreement or disagreement to the prepared questions.
- Projective tests: An individual is required to put him/herself in the given random highly ambiguous situation. The situation has no definite characteristics and different persons perceive it in different ways. Hence, while projecting a situation, a person brings out his personality characteristics.
- Personality rating: In this method one person judges or rates the characteristic of another person. The person who judges is the rater and the person who is judged is the rate.
- Situational test: In this situational test, a person is required to act in a situation which is specially arranged for the purpose of testing. The tester observes the behaviour of the teste while he is acting in the situation. Generally, the testing is done in a group.
- Interview: a face-to-face interview can be carried out to measure the personality.