Personality and character tests.

Abstract

In addition to the usual summary of articles dealing with personality and character tests, we shall include here titles on ratings, general discussions and experiments bearing directly on this subject. The rapidly developing interest in the physiological and morphological aspects of personality in Europe has resulted in a sufficient number of articles and books to justify a special heading for them. Articles reporting the use of old techniques, because of interest in the results only, are listed in Section G.A. Summaries. No less than eighteen summaries have appeared during the calendar year of 1927. In addition to the 1926 summary of 196 titles by May, Hartshorne and Welty (80) the following authors have contributed lists which include references to the problem of measurement in this field: Faris (34) summarizes the literature from the general field of personality with reference to sociology. His summary contains 117 titles, some of which concern methods of research. Froemming (40) offers a short bibliography of character tests of 74 titles. Furfey (42) offers an annotated bibliography of 54 titles. Pangburn (88) has summarized the outstanding contributions of psychology to personality including the measuring movement. Roback's (96) comprehensive bibliography of 3,341 titles contains references to measurement. It is complementary to the Manson bibliography published in 1926, overlapping it in only about 15 per cent of the citations. Shuttleworth's (107) bibliography contains 116 titles covering the period from January, 1924, to October, 1927 refers to 57 scales and devices. G. B. Watson has two summary articles. The first (132) contains 167 titles each briefly annotated. The other (135) overlaps the first to a considerable degree but has supplementary references. In his recent text (133) he gives a carefully annotated list of actual tests. Kimball Young (145, 146) has two summary articles, both bearing on the field of social psychology. One contains 279 titles and the other 189. The classifications are of special interest. iThis bibliography has been prepared in connection with an Inquiry in Character Education made possible by a grant to Teachers College from the Institute of Social and Religious Research.

Evolution of the study and practice of personality at work

“…This work went by various names-temperament and character also were used. By 1930, May and Hartshorne (1926;May, Hartshorne, & Welty, 1927, 1928, 1930, as cited in Viteles, 1932 had produced five reviews in the Psychological Bulletin in which they showed, for example, what is now called "reliability" or "conscientiousness" was a holistic personality construct they called "consistency." Consistent or integrated individuals, they proposed based on evidence, were predictable in their behavior while inconsistent individuals were not.…”

Peaks and Valleys: Predicting interests in leadership and managerial positions from personality profiles

“…Since the early days of applied psychology, researchers have been interested in personality and vocational interests, as well as the association between these two domains (cf. May, Hartshorne, & Welty, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930). Yet, as has often been the case in psychological research, the lack of comprehensive taxonomies long stalled systematic reviews of their interrelation.…”