Note: This test review was published by BPS on 30th March 2009 Description of the Test: The OTP contains 88 items and assesses the individual in terms of Jungian psychological types, a classification system developed by Myers in the MBTI and based on four bipolar characteristics: 1 Extraversion-Introversion (E vs I); 2 Sensing-Intuition (S vs N); 3 Thinking-Feeling (T vs …

Note: This test review was published by BPS on 10th December 2004 Description of the Test: The Occupational Relationships Profile is a personality trait measure with normative rating. The ORP was designed to measure a person’s social interaction within the workplace. It aims to provide a more direct and occupationally focused measure than those provided by clinically derived tests of …

Note: This test review was published by BPS in 2003 Description of the Test The OPQ is actually a whole series of general personality measures specifically designed to be relevant in work settings. The two current Factor versions are reviewed here: FS5.2 has 136 items (eight items per scale plus a social desirability measure) while the FS4.2 has 160 statements …

Note: This test review was published by BPS on 8th October 2010 Description of the Test The OPQ32 consists of three broad-spectrum tests of personality: OPQ32i, OPQ32n and the newest version the shortened OPQ32r. For the OPQ32r respondents are required to make forced choice responses between three mixed scale alternatives rather than four as they are for OPQ32i but improved …

Note: This test review was published by BPS on 18th January 2008 Description of the Test The OPP is a personality measure for use in occupational settings. It measures nine personality dimensions and has a distortion scale to help detect socially desirable responding. The nine scales are bipolar, so that a high or low score on each dimension measures opposite …

Note: This test review was published by BPS on 3rd February 2009 Description of the Test The NEO-PI-R is intended for use in clinical, counselling and industrial/organisational settings. It is one of the few personality tests specifically built on the basis of factor analytic studies which indicate there are five major factors of personality. It measures each of the five …

Note: This test review was published by BPS on 1st January 2019 Description of the Test The MBTI Step II is a self-report type-based measure of personality that builds upon the foundation laid by the MBTI Step I. Whereas Step I classifies test takers according to their preferences against four dichotomies (Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, …

Note: This test review was published by BPS on 1st January 2019 Description of the Test The MBTI Step I is the UK localisation of the MBTI, developed in 1998, based on a combination of items from previous forms of the tool, namely MBTI Forms G and J. It eliminates genderspecific scoring which was evident in the previous Form G of …

Note: This test review was published by BPS in 2003 Description of the Test The Motivation Questionnaire sets out to provide a systematic means of assessing the differences in motivational patterns and strengths between individuals. The questionnaire is concerned with assessing differences in the factor scores that ‘energise, direct and sustain behaviour in the workplace’. The final version of the …

Note: This test review was published by BPS in 2003 Description of the Test The MP is a considerably revised version of the Morrisby Differential Test Battery (see MDTB review, 1989). It consists of six ability tests, four personality measures and two manual dexterity measures. The six ability tests include: the Compound Series Test (CST); three General Ability Tests (GAT) …