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Personality: broadband models

DISC Assessment (DiSC).

DISC / DiSC

What it measures
Four behavioral styles: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness (originally Marston's emotions model; many publisher-specific variants and 8-region circumplex extensions)
Length and format
Varies by publisher: DiSC Classic = 28 forced-choice items; Everything DiSC = ~80 items (adaptive). Forced-choice (most/least like me) or Likert depending on version (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated into 25+ languages across the many DISC publishers; very large global training market
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
mixed

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Reference
Marston, W. M. (1928). Emotions of Normal People. London: Kegan Paul. Modern: Everything DiSC Manual, Wiley.

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