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Introduction
Empirically derived personality assessments are designed to distinguish between groups to effectively measure. Therefore, although items comprising a scale may be theoretically based or have face validity, this is not a necessity with empirically derived tests. Ultimately, this approach may yield measures less susceptible to faking, as even professionals may be unable to surmise an item’s psychometric intent (Meehl 1945).
Assessment Construction
Empirically derived personality measures are developed utilizing an approach known as an external strategy (Butcher 2000), one of three basic strategies to personality measure construction. These...
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Korcuska, J.S., Hotchkiss, J.M. (2020). Empirically Derived Personality Test. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_27
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