Thomas Personal Profile Analysis.
PPA
Workplace behavioural style on the DISC model - Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Compliance - reported as self, work and self-image graphs.
- Length and format
- 24 tetrads (96 adjectives). forced-choice adjective checklist - choose most / least from each of 24 word sets (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many parallel-language versions (Thomas reports validated parallel forms across numerous languages) incl. ES, FR, DE, NL, ZH, PT, IT.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Thomas International. Personal Profile Analysis (PPA). https://www.thomas.co/assessments/personal-profile-analysis-ppa
https://www.thomas.co/assessments/personal-profile-analysis-ppa
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