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Personality
assessment serves two purposes – theoretical and practical.
Theoretically personality assessment provides knowledge about different
dimensions and aspects of personality development and provides
information about its nature. It provides impetus to research on
personality and help develop new theories about personality.
Practical purposes of personality assessment is to know the strength and weaknesses
of a person. It tells which traits in a person are lacking and what are its implications
for
his adjustment with the environment? It provides help in developing
intervention program for persons who need help to overcome some of their
personality based difficulties. For example, if a person is extremely
shy and refuses to move with others even though in all other aspects the
person behaves well, it would be worth the while to know what is it in
the person that makes the person so shy that the individual avoids all
relationships.
Persons may differ over the responses they give for each of the above questions as
it depends on their experiences and life situations.
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