Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire

The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) is a personality test meant to measure normal personality developed by Auke Tellegen in 1982.[1] It is currently sold by the University of Minnesota Press.

The test in its various versions has had 300, 276 and 198 true-false items. The current version is the 276 items one. There also exists a short form with 155 items (MPQ-BF). The questionnaire gives ratings on four broad traits, Positive Emotional Temperament, Negative Emotional Temperament, Constraint and Absorption, as well as 11 primary trait dimensions.[2]

  1. ^ Tellegen, Auke, and Niels G. Waller. "Exploring personality through test construction: Development of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire." The SAGE handbook of personality theory and assessment 2 (2008): 261-292.
  2. ^ "MPQ Standard — University of Minnesota Press". www.upress.umn.edu.