Introduction
The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) is a 206-item personality measure developed for use in industrial-organizational settings. Although it can be used as a research instrument, the HPI was designed with the intention of creating a normal personality measure measuring job fit and leadership potential in addition to predicting overall career success. Specific applications of the HPI include personnel selection, assessment, and career-related decision making (Hogan and Hogan 2007). The measure was originally published in 1986 by Hogan (1986) and has been since renormed, with the publication of its most recent manual occurring in 2007 (Hogan and Hogan 2007). The HPI is intended for use with normal populations and has not been normed with clinical samples, nor do any of its items relate to psychopathology (Hogan and Hogan 2007, p. 20).
The HPI is based on socioanalytic theory (Blickle et al. 2011; Hogan 1982) which postulates that job performance ratings are predicted by the...
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Schultz, D. (2020). Hogan Personality Inventory. 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_901
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