The Thurstone Personality Schedule was one of the first
personality test
A personality test is a method of assessing human personality construct (psychology), constructs. Most personality assessment instruments (despite being loosely referred to as "personality tests") are in fact introspective (i.e., subjective) self ...
s. It was published by
Louis Leon Thurstone
Louis Leon Thurstone (May 29, 1887 – September 29, 1955) was an American pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his co ...
and
Thelma Gwinn Thurstone in 1930. It underwent many revisions and adaptions.
6 year
test-retest reliability
Repeatability or test–retest reliability is the closeness of the agreement between the results of successive measurements of the same measure, when carried out under the same conditions of measurement. In other words, the measurements are taken ...
was 0.53 in one study.
In 1952 around 200 firms used the test for personnel screening.
[Lawrence E. Eldred (Jan 27, 1952). "Temperament Schedule Tests Your Ability To Hold Job". The News and Courier.]
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