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Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar
Summary
The Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar (FPI) is a psychological personality test to assess personality. The test is comparable in some aspects to MMPI and more generally to EPI or 16PF and is mainly used in German speaking countries. The FPI is primarily used in the field of clinical psychology and more generally in psychological research.
The first version was published in 1970 and was composed of four parts: FPI-G (long version), FPI-A und FPI-B (parallel half-editions) and the short version FPI-K ). Initial validation of the test used a sample of 2300 subjects. In 1983, a revised version using an expanded long form containing 138 items (up from 114 in the original FPI-A) was published and validated with a representative sample drawn from western regions of Germany. The test was re-standardized in 2001 using a sample of 3740 subjects from across post-reunification Germany; the re-standardized test controls for sex and age by placing an examinee in one of seven age- and sex-defined groups and scoring responses against sample members within the examinee's group. The test can be administered using pencil-and-paper worksheets or through a computer interface.
The authors selected 10 traits which are most important in psychological research and for diagnostic purposes. Furthermore the two basic secondary factors Extraversion and Emotionality from Hans Jürgen Eysenck were included. The answers of the 138 items are compiled into 12 scales:
Lebenszufriedenheit (life satisfaction)
Soziale Orientierung (social orientation)
Leistungsorientierung (achievement orientation)
Gehemmtheit (inhibitedness)
Erregbarkeit (exitability)
Aggressivität (aggressiveness)
Beanspruchung (strain)
Körperliche Beschwerden (physical complaints)
Gesundheitssorgen (health concern)
Offenheit (frankness)
Extraversion (extraversion)
Emotionalität (emotionality)
Background for the development of the FPI where the theoretical interests of the authors on special personality traits.
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