Definition of Personality Assessment

The Society for Personality Assessment is a group of individuals and organizations invested in the promotion of science and practice focused on understanding personality and its measurement. 

Personality Assessment is the ethical, empirical approach to understanding an individual's unique ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. 

  1. Personality Assessment is scientifically grounded and ultimately aims to benefit those invested in understanding personality and its impact on functioning across domains of living.
  2. Personality Assessment uses methods that show sound psychometrics in the contexts within which assessment is occurring.
  3. Personality Assessment practice involves the integration of data across multiple methods and sources. 
  4. Personality Assessment is sensitive to the contextual factors of people’s lives.
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