Chapter VI: Applications of Personality and Character Measurement

Abstract

THE PAST TRIENNIUM has witnessed considerable growth in the significance and sophistication of research studies involving the use of personality and character measurement. Of the actual research titles to be reviewed in the first five sections of this chapter, 14 percent are in the field of occupational studies; 19 percent show the effect of societal factors on personality measurements; 29 percent evaluate educational problems and outcomes in terms of measured personality factors; 15 percent apply research methods to clinical problems; and 23 percent deal with causative or conditional factors in personality structure. These classifications and the assignment of articles to them represent a gross index of quantity research within five important types of application.