Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.

MPQ

What it measures

11 primary trait scales (e.g. Wellbeing, Social Potency, Achievement, Social Closeness, Stress Reaction, Alienation, Aggression, Control, Harm Avoidance, Traditionalism, Absorption) loading on 3 higher-order factors: Positive Emotionality, Negative Emotionality, Constraint

Length and format

276 (full); brief form MPQ-BF = 155 items. True/False (some Absorption items 4-option) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated into several languages for research (e.g. German, Spanish, and others); used in international behavior-genetic and personality work

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 - author permission

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Reference

Tellegen, A., & Waller, N. G. (2008). Exploring personality through test construction: Development of the MPQ. In The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment, Vol. 2.