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Personality Testing: A Comprehensive Overview

A personality test is a technique for evaluating human personality. Personality testing and evaluation are procedures for measuring the typical patterns of qualities that people display in a variety of contexts. Personality tests can assist clarify a clinical diagnosis, guide therapeutic approaches, and anticipate how people will react in certain scenarios. At First Light Psychological Services, in Kew Gardens, NY & Farmingdale, NY our team of experts are providing the services of personality testing to determine your perceptive abilities, as well as assessing your intellectual level and intelligence.

Personality Testing Uses

Personality assessments are used for a variety of objectives, including:
• Theory evaluation
• Assessing the efficacy of therapy
• Identifying psychological issues
• Examining personality changes
• Screening job Candidates
Personality tests are often utilized in forensic contexts to assess risk, establish competency, and resolve child custody issues. Personality testing may also be utilized in school psychology, career and vocational counselling, relationship counselling, clinical psychology, and job assessment. Meet the best team of expert psychologists At First Light Psychological Services, in Kew Gardens, NY & Farmingdale, NY to measure the range of your thinking abilities and to get a score that is intended to serve as a measure of your problem solving skills and your ability to deal with people and to coordinate with them.

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Types of Personalities

There are 16 types of personalities:


1. The Inspector
2. The Counselor
3. The Mastermind
4. The Giver


5. The Craftsman
6. The Provider
7. The Idealist
8. The Performer


9. The Champion
10. The Doer
11. The Supervisor
12.The Commander

5. The Craftsman
6. The Provider
7. The Idealist
8. The Performer

At First Light Psychological Services, in Kew Gardens, NY & Farmingdale, NY we provide all types of personality testing services given above to test your intellectual and cognitive abilities as well as to find the type of your personality.

Different Types of Personality Testing

Some of the most common of these personality tests include:

  1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, sometimes known as the MBTI, is frequently utilized by businesses throughout the recruiting process. Its questions assess an applicant’s extraversion vs introversion, judgement versus perceiving, intuition vs. sense, and reasoning vs. emotion.

  1. Caliper Profile:

The Caliper Profile assesses how an applicant’s or employee’s personality attributes relate to their success in their job. This evaluation considers both a candidate’s potentially bad and good attributes in order to present a more complete picture of how they might perform in a position.

  1. 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire:

It aids in the measurement of individual behaviors and has a wide range of applications, including career development and employee progression.

  1. SHL Occupational Personality Questionnaire:

The SHL Occupational Personality Questionnaire, often known as the OPQ32, assesses how an individual’s personality characteristics and behavior affect job performance.

  1. HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised:

It assesses six major personality traits: honesty/humility, emotional stability, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to new experiences.

  1. Revised NEO Personality Inventory:

It assesses and evaluates the five major personality qualities specified in the five-factor model: neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion.  

  1. Eysenck Personality Inventory:

The Eysenck Personality Inventory evaluates a person’s personality on two fundamental dimensions: neuroticism vs. stability and extroversion vs. introversion.

  1. DISC personality test:

This test is divided into 28 statements based on the categories Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance (DISC), this test breaks into 28 statements each with four alternatives for the test-taker to score how they connect with the statement, resulting in one of the possible personality types.    

At First Light Psychological Services, in Kew Gardens, NY & Farmingdale, NY our expert psychologists are providing the services of all types of personality testing given above to provide you with the level of your intelligence and to help you select the field of study and profession according to your credentials and suitability.   

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