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NEO-4™ (NEO-4™)
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Appropriate for use in business settings.
The NEO-4 provides information on four personality domains: Extraversion,
Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. It is designed
for use in employment and personal counselling settings involving activities
such
as career counselling, career development, and employee training, where these
four domains are the main focus. Therefore, items in the Neuroticism domain
relating to individual differences in such personality traits as anxiety and
depression, which may not be relevant in career development settings, have
not been included in the NEO-4. Three brief validity checks are provided on the
answer sheet to alert the test administrator that an individual's responses
should be viewed with caution. The 192 NEO-4 questionnaire items and the
scoring keys are identical to those of the E, O, A, and C factors of the NEO
PI-R™. Norms for the NEO-4 are based on the NEO PI-R combined-gender normative
sample. Detailed information about the rationale, development, reliability,
factor structure, and validity of these four factors is available in the NEO
PI-R
Professional Manual.
Each of the NEO-4 domains provides information on many aspects of an
individual's (ages 17 years and older) personality. Each of the domains can be
interpreted at the global factor level; interpretation at the level of the 24
facet scales (six for each domain) facilitates a more detailed analysis. The
NEO-4
Manual Supplement presents a new way to interpret the four domains in terms
of six personal styles: Interests, Interactions, Activity, Attitudes, Learning,
and Character. Each style is defined by a graphic circumflex that combines two
of the four factors. Interpretation of these six personal style graphs
supplements the interpretation of the four domains and 24 facets. Because the
NEO-4 is multifaceted, it is possible to describe the many positive
characteristics along
with the less desirable qualities in a way that is readily acceptable to the
individual.
The NEO-4 materials include a reusable item booklet for self-reports (Form S)
or for ratings by another individual (Form R), a hand-scorable carbonless answer
sheet, a profile form for plotting raw scores to yield T scores, a booklet
containing the six personal style graphs, and a summary form for the client that
provides feedback on the four domain scores as well as the respondent's personal
styles.
A set of overhead transparencies is also available for use in workshops or other
group settings.
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