Research and Course Guides: PSYC302 -- Personality Theories: Tests & Measures

Find Tests in Print

Find published, commercial tests in print. Generally, you must purchase these, unless your professor or department has access to them.

Find Reviews of Tests

Search Mental Measurement Yearbook to find reviews of published, commercial tests. Includes publisher information, validity and reliability reviews, and cost information. Sometimes information is outdated, especially pricing. Make sure you check the date of the review.

Search for Tests

Tips for searching in these databases.

Mental Measurements Yearbook & Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Mental Measurements Yearbook describes and critically analyzes of more than 2000 commercially available standardized English-language tests: educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence. Evaluates tests for validity, reliability, and ease of testing. No full-text tests are included. Tests in Print (TIP) is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests currently in print in the English language.

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences
Helen Hough, from the University of Texas, Arlington, developed this database of tests, inventories, and measures included in compilation volumes (books of tests). For more information about how to search in this database, check out my blog post Tests & Measures in the Social Sciences

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Look up journal articles in PsycINFO to find out which are used for different purposes, which are used most often, how they are used, and find tests of their validity and reliability. You can also find tests that are included in the article by typing in "appended" in the Tests & Measures Field.

SDSU Test Finder
You may search for tests published in books and journals until 2007. Once you find an interesting test, search our catalog to see if we own the book or subscribe to the journal. If not, use InterLibrary Loan to request it.

Ethical Use of Tests

APA's Page on Testing and Assessment
Information on how to find and use tests. Ethical and fair use of tests. Program to increase the number of "Quantitative Psychologists." Testing Information Clearinghouse