Transcript The Revised NEO Personality Inventory - NEO PI-R

Reg Watson, Emad Fahmy,
Fr. Mike Driscoll, & John King
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Program in Counselor Education & Supervision
 Personality
Inventory
• Uses factor-analytic research with both clinical
and normal adult populations
 Recommendations
for use
• Multiple versions for multiple uses
• Self-report (Form S) & observer rating (Form R) –
2 short forms of the NEO Personality Inventory 3
(NEO PI-3)
• NEO PI-3 First Half
• Form R-Men and Form R-Women
 Originally
for adult men and women
without psychopathology
 Used in clinical, research, and applied
settings Examples:
• children as young as 10
• adolescents 14-20 years
• adults ages 21-91
• 12-13 year-old boys and girls
• police officers
• premorbid personality in dementia patients
Norm Group
 NEO
PI-3 – shown to conform crosssectional findings
• Shows the importance of studying personality
development in the twenties.
Examples of NEO PI-R Use
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Use of NEO PI-R in Drug Rehab
• Unsuccessful matching different personality
types to different substance abuse treatments.
• NEO may be helpful in identifying motivational
factors that correlate with treatment success.
• Though normed with non-clinical populations,
NEO was shown to be valid and reliable with
clinical population.
Examples of NEO PI-R Use
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Computer and Adaptive Administration
• No computerized personality tests based on
Item Response Theory (IRT) are currently
available.
• NEO PI-R retains its precision when half of the
240 items are omitted.
• Administering personality tests by computer
offers innovative possibilities.
Neuroticism
Anxiety, Angry, Hostility, Depression,
Self-Consciousness, Impulsiveness,
Vulnerability
Extraversion
Warmth, Gregariousness,
Assertiveness, Activity, Excitement,
Seeking Positive Emotions
Openness to Experience
Fantasy, Aesthetics, Feelings, Actions,
Ideas, Values
Agreeableness
Trust, Straightforwardness, Altruism,
Compliance, Modesty, TenderMindedness
Conscientiousness
Competence, Order, Dutifulness,
Achievement, Striving, SelfDiscipline, Deliberation
Strengths & Considerations
 NEO
– an excellent measure of
personality
• Superb internal consistency of the scales
 Who
has the personality to be President?
 Factor Analysis – a technique for
narrowing down multiple factors
• Therefore, NEO is not a homogenous test.
Scoring
 Instrument’s
format – 5-point rating scale:
• Strongly Disagree
• Disagree
• Neutral
• Agree
• Strongly Agree
Cultural Relevance
 Appears
relevant in many cultures and
countries.
• European, Italian, German, Finnish and Polish,
Spanish, Indian, Asian, Japanese, Chinese,
Korean, Filipino, and African American.
• Various age, education, & gender levels in Polish
adults
 But
not in every culture
• Hmong Americans
Overall Impression of NEO PI-R
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Rapidly becoming one of the most popular measures of
normal personality
Use in both research and applied contexts
Information from the NEO PI-R is rich, providing many
insights
Five-factor model relates personality, presenting
complaint, treatment plan, and treatment outcome well.
References in notes section.