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KMID : 0376719830070110338
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1983 Volume.7 No. 11 p.338 ~ p.349
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The Problems of Self-Report Inventories
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Abstract
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The purpose of this review is to delineate the problems that have interfered with understanding the personality as measured by self-report inventories.
From 1921 on, psychologists have pointed out that inventories fail to: (1) take situational variation into account; (2) control distortion of responses; (3) capitalize on a personality theory in the development of the item pool; and (4) make accurate predictions or descriptions of individual clients. Future inventories must take into account the criticisms that have accompanied the development and utilization of the instruments. In the last decade, personality theorists on the problems with instruments have argued among themseves about the degree of consistency displayed by individuals across response modes, situations, and tirne. The three or four tests are the answer of the 1970s to the plea for an improved device to assess psychopathology. There is no evidence as yet that any will supersede the MMPI.
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