ASSESSMENT OF
PERSONALITY
Jisha
, TYPES OF ASSESSME
• INTERVIEWS
• Method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the clien
allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion.
• Problems with interviews: During interview clients must report on their innermost fe
urges, and concerns – all things that only they can directly know. The same problems tha
with self-report data exist with interviews. Clients can lie, distort the truth, misrememb
give what they think is a socially acceptable answer instead of true information. Interv
themselves can be biased, interpreting what the client says in light of their own belief sy
or prejudices.
• Another problem with interviews is something called the halo effect, which is a tende
form a favourable or unfavourable impression of someone at the first meeting, so that a
person’s comments and behaviour after that first impression will be interpreted to agre
the impression – positively or negatively.
PERSONALITY
Jisha
, TYPES OF ASSESSME
• INTERVIEWS
• Method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the clien
allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion.
• Problems with interviews: During interview clients must report on their innermost fe
urges, and concerns – all things that only they can directly know. The same problems tha
with self-report data exist with interviews. Clients can lie, distort the truth, misrememb
give what they think is a socially acceptable answer instead of true information. Interv
themselves can be biased, interpreting what the client says in light of their own belief sy
or prejudices.
• Another problem with interviews is something called the halo effect, which is a tende
form a favourable or unfavourable impression of someone at the first meeting, so that a
person’s comments and behaviour after that first impression will be interpreted to agre
the impression – positively or negatively.
