The 30-minute (or less) PT/Berkeley Personality Profile, Part
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The unique opportunity to gain insight into the person you are in
different social settings. From one of the leading university departments
in personality assessment--a test designed to be simple, quick, and
valid.
All of us play many different social roles in our everyday lives.
In the course of your own life, for example, you may find yourself
playing the role of a student, an athlete, a lover, an employee, or a
parent, each of which entails different demands and societal
expectations. For example, you may be expected to show restraint at work,
yet be much more aggressive as an athlete.
For each significant role you play in your life, you develop a
"role identity" or image of yourself within that role. Some people feel
that they adapt their personality to form specialized identities that
allow them to meet the specific demands and expectations of particular
roles. others feel they are able to express their personality in a stable
and consistent way, regardless of the role they are playing. You may, for
example, find yourself feeling like a different person on the job than
you are at home, or you may feel that your personality remains very much
the same in spite of the shifting demands of particular
situations.
Your ongoing life experiences influence your role identity--the way
you view yourself within each specific role. Your role identity, in turn,
also influences your behavior and your more general perception of your
personality. For example, if you see yourself as a highly principled
person with clearly defined morals and expectations, this may affect the
approach you take toward raising your children. The role identity you
form as a parent, in turn, may lead you to experience yourself as a
patient and compassionate person overall.
To help you explore the relationship between your overall self
image and the role identities you have formed in response to your ongoing
life experiences, we present Part Two of the PT/Berkeley Personality
Profile. This three-part series is designed to be scientifically valid
while allowing you to take, score, and interpret the profiles yourself by
simply following the instructions provided. (And, by sending in your
results to us, and by taking part in our survey [page 76], you will be
helping to advance the scientific study of personality.
Part Two of the test allows you to describe your role identities,
or "Social Selves"--using the same questionnaire items and personality
dimensions you used in Part One--and focuses on the way you view your
overall personality and the way you see your specific role identities at
work, as a spouse or romantic partner, as a friend, and in another role
(optional) that you identify as especially meaningful to you.
Again, you'll explore your personality and role identities with
respect to the "Big Five" personality dimensions: Expressive Style,
Interpersonal Style, Work Style, Emotional Style, and Intellectual Style.
Using the Big Five, you'll compare the way you see your personality in
general with how you view yourself in a variety of social roles. As you
may recall, your Expressive Style reflects the extent to which you are
outgoing and enthusiastic, as opposed to quiet and reserved. Your
Interpersonal Style concerns the way you get along with others, and the
level of intimacy you maintain in your interpersonal relationships. Your
Work Style refers to the degree to which you focus on your
responsibilities or try to remain carefree. Your Emotional Style concerns
your temperament and the way you deal with stress. Finally, your
Intellectual Style refers to your tendency to prefer simplicity and
tradition as opposed to complexity and change.
The 35 test items in the following questionnaire were developed in
research conducted at the University of California at Berkeley by Oliver
P. John, Ph.D., Eileen Donahue, Ph.D., and Robert Kentle (copyright 1991,
Oliver P. John; used by permission).
A word of caution: the PT/Berkeley Personality Profile is not
intended as a means of assessing the state of your mental health and does
not provide any form of psychotherapy. We urge those who have a history
of emotional and other psychological problems to check with qualified
professionals before proceeding.
How to Score the Test
After you have completed all the scorecards, use the Scoring Guide
at the bottom of the questionnaire to compute your General Self Image
Scores and your Role Identity Difference Scores. Beginning with your
General Self Rating on Scorecard #1, add together all the numbers you
marked from the orange-colored lines, then enter the total in the orange
space at the bottom of page 72 (or enter your Inner-Self Scores from Part
One in the appropriate color-coded box). Do the same for the green,
yellow, red, and blue responses on Scorecard #1. These are your General
Self Image Scores.
Then use the Scoring Column at the right of page 73 to compare the
highest and lowest scores you gave yourself on scorecards #2-#5 for each
of the 35 statements. Enter your highest score for each statement in the
left column, and your lowest score in the middle column. Then subtract
the lowest from the highest score you gave for each statement and write
the result in the last column.
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