Personality and Preference Inventory.
PAPI
- What it measures
- Work-relevant needs and behavioral roles (e.g. need to achieve, need to control, leadership, work pace, attention to detail, sociability) - ~20+ dimensions across a needs-and-roles framework
- Length and format
- PAPI-N (normative) ~126 items; PAPI-I (ipsative) ~90 forced-choice pairs. PAPI-N = 7-pt Likert; PAPI-I = forced-choice pairs (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Available in 25+ languages for global selection and development (extensive European and other versions; Spanish PAPI-N validated)
- 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
- Kostick, M. M. (1977). PAPI: Personality and Preference Inventory. Cubiks (PSL). https://www.cubiks.com
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