| personality inventory | (n) a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits, Syn. personality assessment, Example: a personality inventory is a direct test of personality, as contrasted with a projective test |
| california personality inventory | (n) a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc., Syn. CPI |
| eysenck personality inventory | (n) a self-report personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism), Syn. EPI |
| minnesota multiphasic personality inventory | (n) a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items, Syn. MMPI |
| self-report personality inventory | (n) a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make, Syn. self-report inventory |
