Personality

 

            The Self Inventory Profile

The "Big Five" plus 1

The Self Inventory is a modern, computer-derived implementation and extension of the widely acknowledged Big Five Personality principles and dimensions. It may be used whenever jobs require the presence or absence of certain personal qualities for success.

Here is a summary of its features as a personal profiling inventory.

• The Self Inventory is reliable and valid, producing accurate and recognisable personal profiles when answered openly.
• Self Inventory Items are screened for distortion and faking, and any unusual trends are indicated
• The Self Inventory uses plain language to ensure that it is completely understood by candidates.
• The Self Inventory can be completed in 6 minutes and is scored immediately, providing a detailed report.
• The Self Inventory reports are also free form technical terms. Managers at all levels can understand the format of the colour chart and summary information provided, ensuring maximum candidate job performance and satisfaction.
• The Self Inventory is a short, relaible and sensitive inventory designed to provide a motivational profile for work placement. It is based on the internationally recognised Big Five concept of Five fundamental domains of personal characteristics;
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion - Intraversion (Outgoing vs. Inward Focused)
• Neuroticism (Equable vs. Unstable)
• Openness (Broadminded vs. Closed and Narrow Minded)

 

Origins and Principles

An innovative set of scales was devised. Because the standard Big Five questionnaires have no direct measure of self-assertion or dominance- a quality often necessary in commerce and industry, scale of self-assertiveness (Proactive) was added.

The addition of the Proactive scale to remedy this deficiency has simplified the interpretation of pattern of results; as has made the report phase more easily understood by its users. There are now six basic dimensions measured bty 15 items in each scale. The inventory takes about 6 minutes to complete.

Domains of the Self Inventory

The Self Inventory now contains  domains each of 15 items. Proactive is a new scale, and measures self-assertiveness. The remaining scales are new forms of Big Five, providing highly reliable estimates of individual styles of behaving in work and social contexts. They have distinct and modern labels to enable them to be easily interpreted. Domain examples are provided for ease of reference.

 

Unique Features Providing Important User Advantages

• It is easily understood
• It is, unlike so many other tools. comparatively short but with high reliability.
• It has face validity as well as impeccable technical credentials, including construct and predictive validity.
• It requires No special expertise to administer.
• It can be interpreted with the minimum of professional oversight because of its straightforward descriptions.
• it has built-in safeguards against distortion due to response styles.

The Self-Inventory

The self-Inventory provides trained users with a guide to the management and placement of applicants for all jobs and occupations where individual differences in motivation have been shown to affect performance.

The Six Domains

The self-Inventory has 6 different question types or domains. They are core elements in self-report forms if this kind. These are called Proactive, Interactive, Reactive, Intellective, Nurturant and Dispositional.

• Proactive (Self-Assertive)
• Interactive (Extraverted vs. Intraverted)
• Reactive (Conscientious)
• Intellective (Habit of Mind0
• Nurturant (Agreeable)
• Dispositional (Nervous/Anxious vs. Equable)

The Self -Inventory Test

Candidates should align themselves to a statement based on a scale. The scale has catagories ranging from"Always" to "Never", with variants in between including Rarely, Sometimes, Often and Usually. Candidates can align themselves anywhere on the scale and are not forced to answer to a polar extreme as many similar personality tests force them to do. This gives a more accurate and reliable output.