SELF-REPORT INVENTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-report inventory mean? 

• SELF-REPORT INVENTORY (noun)
  The noun SELF-REPORT INVENTORY has 1 sense:

1. a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make

  Familiarity information: SELF-REPORT INVENTORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-REPORT INVENTORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory

Hypernyms ("self-report inventory" is a kind of...):

personality assessment; personality inventory (a questionnaire that is supposed to yield a description of a person's personality traits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-report inventory"):

California Personality Inventory; CPI (a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.)

EPI; Eysenck Personality Inventory (a self-report personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism))

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; MMPI (a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items)

16 PF; Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (a self-report personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the 16 personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits)

 Context examples 

A well-validated, self-report inventory for the assessment of body image.

(Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire Appearance Orientation, NCI Thesaurus)

A self-report inventory that measures how a person copes with problems and stress.

(Coping Style Assessment Tool, NCI Thesaurus)