Occupational Personality Questionnaire 32.
OPQ32
- What it measures
- 32 work-relevant personality dimensions grouped into 3 domains (Relationships with People, Thinking Style, Feelings & Emotions), reportable against ~9 competency clusters
- Length and format
- OPQ32n ~104 statements (Likert); OPQ32r forced-choice blocks. OPQ32n = 5-pt Likert (+ social-desirability scale); OPQ32r = forced-choice triads scored by IRT (+ consistency scale) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Available in 30+ languages for global selection (extensive European, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American versions)
- 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
- SHL (2009). OPQ32 Technical Manual. Thames Ditton, UK: SHL Group. https://www.shl.com
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