Academic literature on the topic 'Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire'

The Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire (NPQ) is an experimental, structured, nonverbal measure of 16 personality traits. Its items lack verbal content and, therefore, the inventory is useful for cross‐cultural research. Our goal is this research was to select a subset of the NPQ items to form a new nonverbal questionnaire based on the Five‐Factor Model of personality. We describe the construction of the Five‐Factor Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire (FF‐NPQ), and present data on its psychometric properties. These data include scale internal consistencies, intercorrelations, convergences with verbal measures of the Big Five factors, discriminant validity correlations, correlations with peer ratings, and ability to predict socially important behaviour criteria such as smoking and alcohol consumption. In a second study, we report on the psychometric properties of the FF‐NPQ in an independent sample of respondents from seven different countries. The utility of the new nonverbal inventory for cross‐cultural research is discussed. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The Five-Factor Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire, FF-NPQ (Paunonen, Ashton & Johnston, 2001) is an psychometric, structured, nonverbal measure of personality traits defined within the Big-Five model of personality (Costa & McCrae, 1992). The questionnaire has been experimented on Romanian population and the psychometric properties have been studied on a normative sample of 1800 subjects (Iliescu, Minulescu, Nedelcea, 2005). This study presents the results of an exploratory factorial analysis that was carried out in Romania on the items of the Five-Factor Nonverbal Personality Inventory (FFNPQ). The article is focused on the emergence of a 6-factor factorial solution, in some points different from Costa and McCrae's (1992) model, which has been the fundament of FFNPQ construction.

Abstract. Typologies based on Big Five questionnaire data always include the resilient prototype, which is defined by low scores on neuroticism and above-average scores on extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. When measurement of the criterion domains is based on self-reports, this type evidences superior psychological adjustment and well-being in nearly all domains. In the present study, we tested whether the personality profile constituting the resilient prototype is an artifact of self-deceptive enhancement in answering questionnaires. Therefore, we contrasted self-reports of resilients with objective data that we collected during an actual stressful event. A total of 112 pupils (15–19 years) were examined via questionnaires and asked to complete a speech task in front of a video camera. Stress reactions were measured by self-reports as well as by nonverbal behavior, achievement, and physiological responding. Results showed that resilients differed from the other personality prototypes only when self-reports (coping, affectivity) were used. By contrast, no differences between personality prototypes emerged when the three objective stress indicators (speech performance, behavior, and physiological arousal) were used. These findings call into question the superior psychological adjustment attributed to the resilient prototype and stress the necessity of multimethod assessment in personality prototype research.

Abstract Largely overlooked in the literature, this study investigated factors influencing women’s use of sexual coercion. Specifically, pornography use and personality disorder traits linked with poor impulse control, emotional regulation, and superior sense of sexual desirability were considered. Women (N = 142) aged 16–53 years (M = 24.23, SD = 7.06) were recruited from community and student populations. Participants completed the Narcissistic and Histrionic subscales of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4, in addition to the Cyber-Pornography Use Inventory to explore the influence of their pornography use (interest, efforts to engage with pornography, and compulsivity) on their use of sexual coercion. This was measured using four subscales of the Postrefusal Sexual Persistence Scale: nonverbal sexual arousal, emotional manipulation and deception, exploitation of the intoxicated, and use of physical force or threats. Multiple regression analyses revealed that pornography use, narcissistic traits, and histrionic traits significantly predicted the use of nonverbal sexual arousal, emotional manipulation and deception, and exploitation of the intoxicated. Effort to engage with pornography was a significant individual predictor of nonverbal sexual arousal and emotional manipulation and deception, while histrionic traits were a significant individual predictor of exploitation of the intoxicated. Findings were discussed in relation to existing sexual coercion literature and potential future research.

This study explored whether scores on intelligence tests and personality questionnaires can predict performance in an adult basic education and training (ABET) programme. Participants in ABET programmes often have limited English reading skills, which make the use of conventional assessment tools problematic. A proposed solution is to utilise instruments that make limited demands on the use of language. Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM), a well-established intelligence test, and the Five Factor-Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire (FF-NPQ) are both instruments that do not require any reading. The performance of 82 participants in the practical and academic components of an ABET programme was correlated with the RPM and the five traits of the FF-NPQ, namely, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience, Neuroticism and Agreeableness. The RPM correlated significantly with both the practical ( r= 0.47) and academic components ( r= 0.35). The Agreeableness scale of the FF-NPQ correlated significantly with the practical component ( r = 0.34). No personality scale correlated significantly with the academic component. The results show that non-verbal intelligence tests and personality inventories can be potentially useful in the prediction of performance in an ABET programme.

The present investigation is a follow-up to a longitudinal speech and academic study involving approximately 400 normally developing children begun in 1960 by Mildred Templin. From this large data base, the present project invited the participation of two groups of subjects (now aged 32 to 34): (a) 24 adults with a documented history of moderately severe phonological disorder that persisted at least through the end of first grade (probands) and (b) 28 adults from the same birth cohort and schools who were known to have had at least average articulation skills over the same period (controls). Results of follow-up testing revealed that the proband adults performed significantly more poorly than the control adults on all of the administered measures of articulation, expressive language, and receptive language. Results obtained from a screening of nonverbal reasoning ability were equivocal. On a questionnaire measure of personality, both groups scored well within the normal range for the dimensions of extroversion and neuroticism when compared to the test’s normative sample. These results have been interpreted as suggesting that although many adults with a childhood history of delayed phonological development will continue to experience linguistic outcomes that are less favorable than those of controls, their performance in selected nonlanguage domains (e.g., nonverbal reasoning, personality) will be far more typical of the general population.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social, do Trabalho e das Organizações, 2018.
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A avaliação da personalidade ocupa um lugar de destaque na psicologia. A despeito das divergências teóricas sobre o conceito do construto, a necessidade de sua avaliação se mostra no número considerável de instrumentos disponíveis para tanto. Todavia, no Brasil observa-se um fenômeno ainda não solucionado pela área de avaliação psicológica, especialmente no que diz respeito aos testes chamados objetivos, na construção de instrumentos adequados a uma considerável parcela da população que tem dificuldades de leitura e interpretação de texto. Esta dificuldade pode vir a invalidar avaliações realizadas com o uso de escalas e inventários verbais aplicados a indivíduos que não compreendem o instrumento que lhes é dado. Nesse contexto, três estudos foram conduzidos nesta dissertação. O primeiro estudo apresenta uma análise revisão sistemática centrada nos Cinco Grandes Fatores de Personalidade. Dois outros estudos apresentam a adaptação e as evidências de validade do instrumento não verbal de personalidade, o Five Factor Nonverbal Personality Questionnaire, com o intuito de verificar a possibilidade de utilização de um instrumento que, sendo não verbal, traz um diferencial importante para a avaliação da personalidade no Brasil. Segundo dados do IBGE, quase um terço da população brasileira pode ser considerada analfabeta ou analfabeta funcional. Expor estas pessoas a uma avaliação mediada por um instrumento que contém estímulos incapazes de alcançá-las pode não resultar no objetivo esperado, ou seja, pode-se estar excluindo de avaliações objetivas da personalidade um considerável número de sujeitos. A possibilidade de oferecer um instrumento não verbal como forma de contornar esta questão foi o motivo principal que norteou este trabalho.
The evaluation of personality plays a prominent role in psychology. In spite of its different theoretical concepts, evaluation is needed, which is shown in the considerable number of instruments available for that. In Brazil, a phenomenon still not solved by the area of psychological evaluation, especially with regard to the so-called objective tests, is the need for instruments that are adequate for a considerable portion of the population that has difficulties in reading and understanding texts. This difficulty can invalidate assessments that are based on scales and verbal inventories, for the individuals may not be able to understand the instrument given to them. In this context, the studies conducted in this dissertation aimed to adapt and collect evidence of the validity of a nonverbal personality test. According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), almost a third of the Brazilian population can be considered illiterate or functionally illiterate. Exposing these people to an evaluation mediated by an instrument whose stimuli do not reach them may not result in the expected objective, that is, millions of people can be excluded from objective personality tests. The possibility of offering a non-verbal instrument as a way to get around this issue was the main reason that guided this work.