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California Personality Inventory

DEFINITIONS OF: California Personality Inventory

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n 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.

Synonyms:
CPI
Type of:
self-report inventory, self-report personality inventory
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
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