ABSTRACT

The fact that the questionnaire is objective at least about its scoring entitles it, as we have seen, to the title of a conspective test one in which two different psychologists will 'see together', and give the person tested the same score. While this work has developed, the questionnaire has continued to retain its popularity because of its convenience since objective tests require more skilled psychological help in administration, as well as a certain amount of apparatus, and they take perhaps three or four hours where the questionnaire takes only one. Moreover, unless objective tests are to be employed merely as ad hoc special purpose tests unrelated to knowledge of personality structure and function, it is necessary to start again at the beginning here and discover the personality factors in the whole realm of objective behavioural response. Anxiety is both a state and a trait.