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Normal Personality Assessment in Clinical Practice: The NEO Personality Inventory

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Costa, PT; McCrae, RR
Published in: Psychological Assessment
January 1, 1992

Personality psychologists from a variety of theoretical perspectives have recently concluded that personality traits can be summarized in terms of a 5-factor model. This article describes the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), a measure of these 5 factors and some of the traits that define them, and its use in clinical practice. Recent studies suggest that NEO-PI scales are reliable and valid in clinical samples as in normal samples. The use of self-report personality measures in clinical samples is discussed, and data from 117 "normal" adult men and women are presented to show links between the NEO-PI scales and psychopathology as measured by Jackson's (1989) Basic Personality Inventory and Morey's (1991) Personality Assessment Inventory. We argue that the NEO-PI may be useful to clinicians in understanding the patient, formulating a diagnosis, establishing rapport, developing insight, anticipating the course of therapy, and selecting the optimal form of treatment for the patient.

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Psychological Assessment

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1040-3590

Publication Date

January 1, 1992

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4

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1

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5 / 13

Related Subject Headings

  • Clinical Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1503 Business and Management
 

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Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Normal Personality Assessment in Clinical Practice: The NEO Personality Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 4(1), 5–13. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.4.1.5
Costa, P. T., and R. R. McCrae. “Normal Personality Assessment in Clinical Practice: The NEO Personality Inventory.” Psychological Assessment 4, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.4.1.5.
Costa PT, McCrae RR. Normal Personality Assessment in Clinical Practice: The NEO Personality Inventory. Psychological Assessment. 1992 Jan 1;4(1):5–13.
Costa, P. T., and R. R. McCrae. “Normal Personality Assessment in Clinical Practice: The NEO Personality Inventory.” Psychological Assessment, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 1992, pp. 5–13. Scopus, doi:10.1037/1040-3590.4.1.5.
Costa PT, McCrae RR. Normal Personality Assessment in Clinical Practice: The NEO Personality Inventory. Psychological Assessment. 1992 Jan 1;4(1):5–13.

Published In

Psychological Assessment

DOI

ISSN

1040-3590

Publication Date

January 1, 1992

Volume

4

Issue

1

Start / End Page

5 / 13

Related Subject Headings

  • Clinical Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1503 Business and Management