California Personality Inventory

Definitions of California Personality Inventory
  1. noun
    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
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    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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