ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a review of personality tests appropriate for use with adolescents. These instruments are variously referred to as structured personality tests, structured personality inventories, or objective personality tests. They are regarded as structured or objective because they contain a fixed number of items, they are presented in a standardized fashion, and they are scored according to structured formulas. These features distinguish these tests from the projective tests with their unstructured, ambiguous items and high degree of interpretation in scoring. Because the focus of this book is on standardized psychological assessments, the projective techniques are not reviewed. Readers are referred to discussions of these measures provided by Aiken (1996a) and Kratochwill and Morris (1993).
