The document discusses the 16 Personality Factor (16PF) psychometric test. It describes the 16PF as a test that measures 16 underlying personality traits, without regard to how a person applies their personality in different environments. It provides details on each of the 16 factors and themes measured by the test, including what high and low scores on each factor indicate. The document is authored by Prof. Dinesh Soni, who has several qualifications and experience in psychology and as a certified 16PF professional.

1. 16 PF PSYCHOMETRIC
TEST
Rtn Prof Dinesh Soni

2. What is Psychometric Test?
 Aims to measure aspects of your mental ability
or your personality
 An indicator of your personality, preferences
and abilities
 Objective, Standardized, Reliable, Predictive
and Non Discriminatory
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3. What Psychometric Test is not?
 Not Enigmatic thing
 Nothing to be feared about
 Not meant for only psychologically ill
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4. What is 16 PF?
 16 Personality Factors
 Based on 16 “Source traints” put forth by
Raymond B. Cattell in 1940’s
 Defines basic, underlying personality, without
regard to how we apply it to the environment in
which we apply it
 If you understand what your personality is, you
can then make better use of the strenghts and
make allowances for the resultant weaknesses
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5. Factors
A : Warmth
B : Reasoning
Factors
C : Emotional
Stability
E : Dominance
F : Liveliness
G : Rule
Consciousness
H : Social
Boldness
N : Privateness
I : Sensitivity
M :
Abstractedness
L : Vigilance
O :
Apprehension
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6. Themes
Q1 :
Openness to
change
Q2 : Self-
Reliance
Q3 :
Perfectionism
Q4 : Tension
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7. Factor A : Warmth
 Measures person’s emotional orientation
towards others
 The degree to which contact with others is
sought and found rewarding as an end in it
 High scores like and need to be with others
 Low scores are more interested in tasks and
ideas than in people-interaction
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8. Factor B : Reasoning
 Measures a person’s way of thinking and
reasoning
 High scores are mentally quick and absorb
new information rapidly and efficiently
 Low scores are most comfortable with familiar,
well-known tasks in which they can draw on
past experience and can utilize a concrete
style of learning by doing
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9. Factor C : Emotional Stability
 Measures a person’s proness to mood swings
or “ups and downs”
 High scorers are usually better able to manage
stress in a positive, proactive way, to remain
solution focused under stress
 Low scorers typically struggle more with
stress, yet may also experience a richer and
fuller emotional life
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10. Factor E : Dominance
 Measures a person’s place on the “pecking
order” of interpersonal assertiveness
 High scorers enjoy being in control and value
power. They are often seen as “natural
leaders” by others
 Low scorers make few demands on others,
like to accommodate the needs and wishes of
other people, sometimes make insufficient
room for own wishes and needs to be
expressed
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11. Factor F : Liveliness
 Measures a person’s natural exuberance of
energy level
 High scorers are usually uninhibited, playful,
adventorous type who enjoy being the centre
of attraction
 Low scorers are deliberate, cautious, careful,
focused and serious minded types
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12. Factor G : Rule Consciousness
 Measures a person’s orientation to rules,
procedures, protocols and social expectations
 High scorers are likely to stick to the rules
even if it means that a desired result can not
be obtained
 Low scorers are prone to think that rules are
made to be broken (or at least bent) if this is
what it takes to achieve a desired result
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13. Factor H : Social Boldness
 Measures social initiative taking and to lesser
extent, a general orientation towards risk
taking of any sort
 High scorers are usually social initiative takers
who are confortable with activities like
networking, self-marketing, introducing self to
others, small talk.
 Low scorers are more likely to be shy and to
find social initiative taking aversive and difficult
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14. Factor I : Sensitivity
 A complex factor
 Objectivity vs Subjectivity
 Tough Mindedness Vs Tender mindednness
 High scorers are generally emotionally
sensitive, empathic, aware of feelings and
prone to make decisions on more personal
and subjective basis
 Low scorers are objective, analytical, logical
and prone to make decisions on more
impersonal basis
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15. Factor L : Vigilance
 Measures the level between trust and
skepticism
 High scorers are more careful, vigilant, wary or
skeptical about trusting others
 Low scorers are more prone to take others at
face value and to trust others’ motivations in
excessive or unrealistic ways
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16. Factor M : Abstractedness
 Practicality vs Creativity
 High scorers are generally creatrive,
imaginative, insightful
 Low scorers are very much in touch with
practical realities, live by them and make
decisions on literal and factual basis
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17. Factor N : Privateness
 Has to do with self-disclosure and how easy a
person is to get to know as well as how well
he/she keeps private matters confidential
 High scorers are careful and selective about
self-disclosure; slower to open up to others
 Low scorers are “shoot from the lip” types who
are quick to disclose information
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18. Factor O : Apprehension
 Has to do with apprehension in two senses
 General proness to worry
 Propensity to self-doubt and self-blame
 High scorers tend to be merciless self critics
 Low scorers are self assumed, self confident
and rarely worry about themselves
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19. Factor Q1 : Openness to
Change
 Has to do with a person’s orientation to
change, novelty and innovation
 High scorers like change, respond positively to
change, seek change and want to “boldly go
where no one has gone before”
 Low scorers like the known, the tried and true,
and the time tasted paths
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20. Factor Q2 : Self Reliance
 Has to do with a propensity to seek group
support or to strike out on one’s own
 High scorers like to solve problem on their own
and prize self reliance
 Low scorers like group support and group
consensus, think in terms of collaborative,
team based action and may have hard time
acting alone or independantly
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21. Factor Q3 : Perfectionism
 A complex factor
 Task orientation vs Process orientation
 Structure seeking vs structure avoidant
 High scorers are more organized, systematic,
methodical, goal oriented, focussed on
conventional achievements, like high levels of
structure and tend to have steady work habits
 Low scorers are more flexible, adaptable,
spontaneous, emergent and process oriented
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22. Factor Q4 : Tension
 Has to do with patience or impatience in
response to environmental delays, stresses
and demands
 High scorers are always on the go, constantly
busy, efficiency minded and driven to make
thigns happen
 Low scorers are patient, relaxed, placid and
enjoy life with less internal stress
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23. Revision
Factor Descriptors
A Warmth Reserved Outgoing
B Reasoning Less Intelligent More Intelligent
C Emotional Stability Affected by feelings Emotionally stable
E Dominance Humble Assertive
F Liveliness Sober Happy-go-lucky
G Rule Consciousness Expedient Conscientious
H Social Boldness Shy Venturesome
I Sensitivity Tough-minded Tender-minded
L Vigilance Trusting Suspicious
M Abstractedness Practical Imaginative
N Privateness Straightforward Shrewd
O Apprehension Self-Assured Apprehensive
Q1 Openness to Change Conservative Experimenting
Q2 Self-Reliance Group-dependent Self-sufficient
Q3 Perfectionism Self-conflict Self-control
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Q4 Tension Relaxed Tense
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25. About Speaker
 Name: Prof. Dinesh Soni
 Education: BE (IT), MMS (HR),
Diploma in Psychology
 Certified 16 pf professional
 Felicitated by Academia Sinica,
Taiwan
 Winner of “Young Achiever Award”
 Winner of “Maheshwari Achiever
Award”
 Trainer for Rotary International’s
School BRy PYrofL DAine sph Hr.o Sogniram
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26. About Speaker
 Currently: Owner of Ramapeer Agro Traders
 Currently: Trainer at “Institute of Tally
Learning”
 Previously: HOD at MIT College of Computer
Studies
 Previously: Visiting Faculty at MIT College of
Journalism
 Previously: Visiting Faculty at Dayanand
Commerce College
 Previously: HR Associate at Ennovata By Prof Dinesh H. Soni
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27. About Speaker
 Previously: Management Trainee at
Way2job
 Previously: Jam Bureau Chief for JAM
mag
 Previously: President of Rotaract Club
of Latur MidTown
 Previously: President of Yuva
Maheshwari, Latur
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28. Contact
 Phone: +91-841-1818-188
 E-mail: dinesh@dineshhsoni.com
 Website: www.dineshhsoni.com
 Facebook: www.facebook.com/dinno
 Linkedin: in.linkedin.com/in/dineshsoni
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