CALIFORNIA PERSONALITY INVENTORY

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Meaning:

A self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.

Synonyms:

California Personality Inventory; CPI

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("California Personality Inventory" is a kind of...):

self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)

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