Online Personality Tests


Note: All of the tests provided are scientifically validated. Original tests are provided unless otherwise noted.

General Personality Traits
Big Five - short IPIP version
Take a short self-report measure of general personality styles. Currently, the "Big 5" is considered the best approximation of how individuals describe one another. Consequently, it is now the most widely-used approach to understanding the personalities in individuals. We describe these traits as Expressive, Emotional, Interpersonal, Work, and Intellectual Styles.

Scoring: At the end of the test, you will be given your overall scores, descriptions of your styles, and a general discussion of how to interpret them.
Hogan's Big Seven - short IPIP version
This is a variant of the Big Five based on Robert Hogan's HPI assessment tool. It measures seven major dimensions of personality by theoretically splitting two Big 5 dimensions. Extraversion is split into Ambition and Sociability. Openness to Experience is split into School Success and Intellectance. This model of general personality tends to fit better than the Big Five with how individuals see their own personalities. Further, it is widely used in personnel selection settings. Hence, it is a highly-recommended test for self-assessment and getting an understanding what aspects of personality are important in the working world.

Scoring: You will be given your seven overall scores with a brief discussion of each.
California Psychological Inventory - IPIP version
The California Psychological Inventory is one of the oldest and best personality assessment tools available. This particular test is designed to parallel the original. The test itself measures 20 "folk concepts", that is, it assesses people on the dimensions that average people use to think about themselves. Together, these 20 folk concepts measure interpersonal tendencies, values, intellectual functioning, and personal styles.

Scoring: You will be given scores and interpretation for each folk concept and some information about what certain combinations mean.


Deviant and Abnormal Personality Measures
The Mini-ME
This is a scale intended to measure subclinical personality traits. These traits are considered to be predictive of the ways in which normal people behave badly when a stressful or high pressure situation causes them to react in negative ways.

Scoring: At the end of the test, you will be given your overall scores and a general discussion of how to interpret them.
Obsessive-Compulsive
This is the IPIP scale for assessing obsessive-compulsive tendencies.


Work-Related Measures
Employee Engagement
This is a scale assesses how emotionally, behaviorally, and cognitively engaged you are at work. Employee engagement is a job attitude similar to job satisfaction and commitment when it is measured in survey form. Currently, engagement is the hot area in human resources consulting. Every consulting company has their engagement measure. This is a free version available for public use. We will add norms when we have them.
Job Attitudes
Is your job satisfying? Are treated fairly? Are you commited to your company? Do they support you in your job? This survey is a collection of common job attitude measures including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, justice perceptions, and organizational support. See how you compare to other people in your evaluation of your job and workplace.
Extra-Role Behaviors
These scales were developed to assess the degree to which an individual engages in voluntary behaviors that either help or hurt the organization that they work for.


Interests, Motives, and Values
Workplace Values
What job is right for you? The U.S. Department of Labor has provided the means to find out. The Work Importance Locator uses your own value orientation to help you explore your career options. This is a version one of the finest tools currently available to vocational counselors. Further, it is one of the only ones being freely offered to the public.
Upon completion of this test, users will be given feedback on their work values and directed to comprehensive inventories of jobs that best suit their value orientation.

Power Needs
How do you react to powerful individuals? Do you lust for power or do you worry that power might corrupt you? Take this short survey to discover your power orientation.
Interpersonal Relationship Orientation
This interactive survey takes about 10 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is designed to measure your "attachment style"--the way you relate to others in the context of intimate relationships. When completed, the site will reveal your attachment style, and provide a brief summary of what is known about your attachment style on the basis of contemporary scientific research.
Obligation- Entitlement Survey
Find out if your thoughts and feelings about obligation and enititlement make you a giver, taker, autonomous, or a social investor in your society. This inventory assesses your levels of obligation and entitlement.

Scoring: You will receive feedback regarding your standing on entitlement and obligation as well as information regarding how you compare to others in these domains.


Abilities, Skills, and Cognitive Functioning
Intellectual Pursuits
How much do you regularly focus on broadening your knowledge? Do you pursue intellectual activities on a regular basis? These scales assess your intellectual curiousity and self-efficacy for learning.

Scoring: At the end of the test, you will be given scores for your intellectual curiosity profile. Further, you will be given personality data regarding how you compare to others and a summary about the implications of your profile.
Are you an Intellectual?
Take on of our scales that assesses how confident you are in your knowledge of a variety of topics. Click this link and you will get to choose which area you want to be tested in. New scales are being added all the time.

Scoring: At the end of the test, you will be told how accurate you were in answering quesitons and how that compares to your confidence in the answers.


Emotions and Well-Being
Overall Emotional Profile
What are you like in general when it comes to your emotions? Are you happy, sad, angry, or energetic most of the time? These scales offer a perspective on your general emotional make-up.

Scoring: At the end of the test, you will be given scores for your emotional profile. Further, you will be given personality data regarding how you compare to others.
Well-Being
One of the most popular topics studied in personality psychology today is psychological well-being. Are you satisfied with your life? What makes you happy? What are the characteristics of a happy person?

Scoring: You will receive personality feedback on your own personal well-being from a variety of psychological and cultural perspectives. You will also be provided with feedback regarding where you scores fit in relation to others.