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Noun1.16 PF - a self-report personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the 16 personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits16 PF - a self-report personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the 16 personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits
self-report inventory, self-report personality inventory - 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
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Commonly used personality disorder tests are Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Revised Neo Personality Inventory (Neo Pi-R), International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), 16 Personality Factors (16PF), Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and Rorschach Inkblot test.
The creative potential scale is a predictive scale formed through a special combination of factors developed by Cattell, Cattell, and Cattell (1993) for the 16 Personality Factors questionnaire.
The 16 Personality Factors listed by Cattell3 (in the questionnaire 16 PF) are warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, conscientious, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self-reliance, perfectionism and tension.
16 Personality Factors Questionnaire was administered to assess the personality traits.
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