Self Analysis and Personality Diagnostic Tests

Self Analysis and Personality Diagnostic Tests People are created uniquely and different one to another, which results in character and personality differences. The needs of socialising and workplace purposes, such as career development and organisation effectiveness have ‘forced’ people to be more aware and understand their potentials through self-analysis. It requires people to assess themselves as an object in particular event or experience, which enables people to gain self-awareness (De Janasz, Wood, Gottschalk, Dowd, and Schneider, 2007, p.8). Self-awareness is the ability of an individual in assessing others’ evaluations of self and incorporate those evaluations in one self-evaluation, which then would help determine his potentials (Atwater and Yammarino, 1992, as cited in McCarthy, Garavan, 1992). Goleman (1998, as cited in McCarthy, Garavan, 1992) suggests that an individual who is self-aware has a deep understanding, which would help on maximise their strengths, learn to minimise or even overcome their weaknesses. Self-awareness can be gained through exercising several personality tests, which the results found to be reasonably accurate, and may assist by giving people illustrations about their self. This essay will talk about self-awareness through comparing and contrasting the personality tests, such as The Big Five Locator, Emotional Intelligence Test, Human Dynamics Profiler, and Personal Style Inventory which is based on Myers-Briggs Test.

Diagnostic Tools Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is another type of personality test, developed by Briggs Myers and Mary H. McCaulley (1998), based on four pairs of dimensions such as Introversion (I) and Extroversion (E), Thinking (T) and Feeling (F), Sensing (S) and Intuition (N), Perceiving (P) and Judging (J). Higgs (2001) claimed that of these eight elements, four can be considered as the dominant factors, which are Sensing, Intuitive, Thinking, and