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Personality: broadband models

Gordon Personal Profile-Inventory.

GPP-I

What it measures
Eight normal-personality traits: Ascendancy, Responsibility, Emotional Stability, Sociability (Self-Esteem = sum of these four), Cautiousness, Original Thinking, Personal Relations, Vigor
Length and format
38 forced-choice tetrad blocks (each with most/least like me). Forced-choice (ipsative tetrads) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated into several languages for selection use (e.g. Spanish, French, Indian-English adaptations, and others)
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
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Gordon, L. V. (1978). Gordon Personal Profile-Inventory Manual. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (now Pearson).

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