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Personality scales

Course Description: This course addresses the concept of personality and its basic dimensions, the relationship between personality theory and its measurement, the foundations for classifying tests, and different methods for measuring personality. It also covers the theoretical and methodological foundations of tests and scales, the characteristics of a good scale, the objectives and uses of tests and scales, and the types of scores derived from them. Furthermore, it explores strategies for constructing personality questionnaires. Finally, it includes practical training in administering certain personality tests and scales, scoring them, and preparing psychological profiles. It also provides training in developing new questionnaires, including linguistic formulation and the rules for creating new questionnaires.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisites: PSY2203
Objectives of the course :

The course aims to:
The concept of personality and its basic dimensions, the objectives of its measurement, the bases for classifying personality tests, and methods of measuring personality.
Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Personality Scales and Characteristics of a Good Scale.
Applying and scoring intelligence tests (correction) and preparing the psychological profile.
• Fundamentals of developing a new intelligence test, tailoring intelligence content to examinees, and linguistic formulation.
• Survey key personality intelligence and metrics, train on their application, and assess and interpret the results.

Course outputs :

To mention the concept of personality, its basic dimensions, and methods of measurement.
To explain the relationship between personality theory and its measurement.
To discuss the theoretical and methodological foundations of personality measures.
To analyze the results of some personality measures.
To use the foundations of psychological testing to build a new intelligence that possesses the characteristics of a good test.
To compare personality tests and measures.
Apply some personality measures and conclude the most important measurement results.
To verify the availability of essential properties in personality measures.
To design a tool for measuring an aspect of personality according to the basic rules for constructing new questionnaires.

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  • Last updated: 2026-04-30

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