Limitations of Personality Inventories

Limitations of Personality Inventories 

Personality inventory is a printed form that consists of a set of statements or questions applying to human behaviour. The list of questions is a standard one and requires specific answers such as "yes", "no" and "cannot decide".

Personality inventories have certain advantages over projective tests and interviews in the sense that inventories are standardised. Also, observer bias and interpretation bias are not possible due to their objective frame. But there are some problems with inventories too.

● Even though, good at validity end, some people still fake their answers and respond in socially acceptable ways.

● Also some people follow a revular course of answering the statements without actually considering them, there as others may pick statements to answer at random rather than answering each and every statement.

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