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Discuss any two self -report measures of assessing personality.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: The test was developed by Mathway and Mckinley. Its revised version the MMPI -2 is also available. The test comprises 567 statement and the subject has to judge each statement as true or false. The test is divided into 10 subscales and seeks to identify hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, mania, schizophrenia among others. In India, a scale has been developed along the lines of MMPI called the Jodhpur Multiphasic Personality Inventory (JMPI).

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire: This test assesses two dimensions of personality, introverted-extroverted and emotionally-stable-emotionally unstable. These dimensions include 32 personality traits. Later on, a third dimension called psychoticism was added by Eysenck. It is connected to psychopathology that describes a lack of feelings for others, a stern way of dealing with people and a tendency to defy social norms.  A person high on this test tends to be hostile, egocentric and antisocial. This test has been applied widely.