The test was not given to large numbers of soldiers but was the forerunner other tests.
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Woodworth 1869 1962 of columbia university developed this personal data sheet or test of personality to be used to screen recruits and weed out those susceptible to shell shock.
During world war i psychologist robert s.
Woodworth introduced and popularized the expression stimulus organism response s o r to describe his functionalist approach to psychology and to stress its difference from the strictly stimulus response s r approach of the behaviorists in his 1929 second edition of psychology.
Do you make friends easily.
The scoring on the scale was the total number of extreme item responses based on a rational determination of adjustment problems.
The questions on what would become the woodworth personal data sheet or psychoneurotic inventory started out asking if the subject felt well and strong and then tried to pry into their.
Early self report inventory the so called woodworth personal data sheet was developed during world war i to detect soldiers who were emotionally unfit for combat.
Items included do you ever get tired of people easily and do you ever get so angry that you see red gibby and zickar 2008.
Woodworth during world war i for the united states army it was published in 1919 and it was developed to screen recruits for shell shock risk but was not completed in time to be used for this purpose.
Do you feel tired most of the time.
The first personality inventory ever woodworth psychoneurotic inventory read more.
Following the war woodworth renamed the test the woodworth personality data sheet and adapted it for use in industrial settings.
The woodworth personal data sheet included 116 items such as.
Among its ostensibly face valid items were these.
Woodworth personal data sheet background based on logical content strategy uses reason and deductive logic in the development of personality measures.
Introduction while the great world war exacted a frightful toll of death destruction and chaos it yet served as a means of enriching the sum total of the world s store of knowledge.
The woodworth personal data sheet sometimes known as the woodworth psychoneurotic inventory was a personality test commonly cited as the first personality test developed by robert s.
That test was developed to identify soldiers prone to nervous breakdowns during enemy bombardment in world war i.
This is a interactive version of the woodworth psychoneurotic inventory.
Have you ever seen a vision.
This 1924 version was designed to measure personal maladjustment using 75 yes or no items.
Does the sight of blood make you sick or dizzy.