Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire

Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) is a personality test.[1] It was devised by C. Robert Cloninger. A newer version of the questionnaire is called Temperament and Character Inventory.

As the name indicates TPQ seeks to measure three dimensions (traits) of the personality. These personality traits are novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence. Each have four subscales. There are 100 true-false questions which form the basis for the computation of the traits.

The personality test also exists in Chinese,[2] French[3] and German[4] versions.

  1. ^ C. R. Cloninger, T. R. Przybeck & D. M. Svrakic (December 1991). "The Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire: U.S. normative data". Psychological Reports. 69 (3 Pt 1): 1047–1057. doi:10.2466/PR0.69.7.1047-1057. PMID 1784653.
  2. ^ Wei J. Chen, Hsing-Me Chen, Chwen-Cheng Chen, Chiao-Chicy Chen, Wu-Yang Yu & Andrew T. A. Cheng (March–April 2002). "Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire: psychometric properties and construct validity in Taiwanese adults". Comprehensive Psychiatry. 43 (2): 158–66. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.523.4198. doi:10.1053/comp.2002.30797. PMID 11893995.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ J. P. Lepine, A. Pelissolo, R. Teodorescu & M. Teherani (November–December 1994). "[Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the French version of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ)]". L'Encéphale. 20 (6): 747–53. PMID 7875109.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Weyers P et al. Pers. Ind. Diff 1995 19:853:861.