Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire

Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) is a personality test.{{Cite journal

| author = C. R. Cloninger, T. R. Przybeck & D. M. Svrakic

| title = The Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire: U.S. normative data

| journal = Psychological Reports

| volume = 69

| issue = 3 Pt 1

| pages = 1047–1057

|date=December 1991

| pmid = 1784653

| doi = 10.2466/PR0.69.7.1047-1057

}}

It was devised by C. Robert Cloninger.

A newer version of the questionnaire is called Temperament and Character Inventory.

As the name indicates TPQ seeks to measure three dimensions (traits) of the personality.

These personality traits are novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence.

Each have four subscales.

There are 100 true-false questions which form the basis for the computation of the traits.

The personality test also exists in Chinese,{{Cite journal

| author = Wei J. Chen, Hsing-Me Chen, Chwen-Cheng Chen, Chiao-Chicy Chen, Wu-Yang Yu & Andrew T. A. Cheng

| title = Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire: psychometric properties and construct validity in Taiwanese adults

| journal = Comprehensive Psychiatry

| volume = 43

| issue = 2

| pages = 158–66

|date=March–April 2002

| pmid = 11893995

| doi = 10.1053/comp.2002.30797

| citeseerx = 10.1.1.523.4198

}}

French{{Cite journal

| author = J. P. Lepine, A. Pelissolo, R. Teodorescu & M. Teherani

| title = [Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the French version of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ)]

| journal = L'Encéphale

| volume = 20

| issue = 6

| pages = 747–53

|date=November–December 1994

| pmid = 7875109

}}

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