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                      Hogan Personality Inventory
     Local test distributor / publisher: Psychological Consultancy Ltd
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        Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
        Reviewers:                      P. Creed
                                        & V. Shackleton
        Consulting Editor:              I. Robertson
        Senior Editor:                  P. A. Lindley
        Senior Update Editor:           P. A. Lindley
        Update Editor                   P. A. Lindley
       GENERAL INFORMATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENT
       Test Name: Hogan Personality Inventory
       Authors of the original test: Robert Hogan and Joyce Hogan
       Local test distributor / publisher: Psychological Consultancy Ltd
       Publisher of the original version of the test: Hogan Assessment Systems
       Date of Publication of Current Review/Edition: 1992 (UK ed)
       Original Test Name: Hogan Personality Inventory
       Date of Publication of the Original Test: 1986
       Date of Current Review: 2003
       ISBN: 1854335952
       General Description of Test: The questionnaire is based on socioanalytic theory. This assumes that
       people are motivated to engage in social interaction. Specifically, people have two broad motives: to seek
       the acceptance and recognition of peers and to seek status and power relative to peers. People are
       concerned with how they are seen by others, about their reputation. In this context, the authors view
       questionnaire responses as measuring self−presentation, not as self report. The HPI is a 206−item
       true−false personality inventory designed to assess normal personality in work and social settings. The HPI
       is based on the Five Factor Model and Hogan's socioanalytic personality theory. The development of the
       HPI was influenced by theories on public and private self−representations. Consequently, the HPI aims to
       measure the interpersonal aspects of personality and behaviour.
       The questionnaire gives information on seven primary scales.
       Adjustment − Calm and self−accepting vs self−critical and tense.
       Ambition − Socially self−confident, leader like, competitive or energetic.
       Sociability − Need for / enjoyment of interacting with others
       Agreeability − Perceptive, tactful and socially sensitive
       Prudence − Conscientious, conforming and dependable
       Intellectance − Bright creative, interested in intellectual matters
       Scholarship − Enjoyment of academic activities, valuing education for its own sake
       In addition, the inventory has a Validity scale designed to detect careless or random responding.
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     The primary scales have 41 Homogeneous Item Composites (HICs) which are recombined to form six
     occupational scales.
     (1) Service orientation
     (2) Stress tolerance
     (3) Reliability
     (4) Clerical potential
     (5) Sales potential
     (6) Managerial potential
     Classification
     Content Domains:
      • Personality − Trait
     Intended or main area(s) of Use:
      • Work and Occupational
     Intended mode of use (conditions under which the instrument was standardised and validated):
      • Supervised and controlled administration. Test administration under the control of a qualified
       administrator or proctor
     Description of the populations for which the test is intended:
     General working population.
     Number of scales and brief description of the variable or variables measured by the test:
     Seven primary and six occupational: The questionnaire gives information on seven primary scales:
     Adjustment − Calm and self−accepting vs self−critical and tense.
     Ambition − Socially self−confident, leader like, competitive or energetic.
     Sociability − Need for/ enjoyment of interacting with others.
     Agreeability − Perceptive, tactful and socially sensitive.
     Prudence − Conscientious, conforming and dependable.
     Intellectance − Bright creative, interested in intellectual matters.
     Scholarship − Enjoyment of academic activities, valuing education for its own sake.
     In addition, the inventory has a Validity scale designed to detect careless or random responding.
     The primary scales have 41 Homogeneous Item Composites (HICs) which are recombined to form six
     occupational scales:
     (1) Service orientation
     (2) Stress tolerance
     (3) Reliability
     (4) Clerical potential
     (5) Sales potential
     (6) Managerial potential.
     Items format:
      • Bipolar adjectives
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         Number of test items:
         206
         Administration modes:
          • Interactive individual administration
          • Supervised Group administration
         Response mode:
          • Paper and pencil
          • Computerised administration scoring, analysis and interpretation.
         Time:
         Preparation: 5 minutes.
         Administration: Approximately 20−30 minutes.
         Scoring: Depends on which method is chosen.
         Analysis: A few minutes.
         Feedback: 30−60 minutes.
         Different forms of the test:
         There are no alternative forms available.
         Measurement and Scoring
         Scoring procedure for the test:
          • Computer scoring with direct entry of responses by test taker
          • Computer scoring manual entry of responses from the paper response form
          • Bureau−service − e.g. scoring by the company selling the test
         Score transformation for standard scores:
          • Normalised − scores obtained by use of normalisation look−up table
         Scales Used:
         Percentile−based scores:
          • Centiles
          • The narrative report generated by the software describes low scores in terms of percentiles below 35,
            and high scores in terms of percentiles above 65.
         Computer−Generated Reports
         Are computer generated reports available with the instrument?:
          • Yes
         Do distributors offer a service to correct and/or develop computer generated reports?:
          • Yes
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