ABSTRACT
Whether we accept as the pioneer of personality testing Jung, who as early as 1905 devised a series of association tests by which individuals were to be placed in a typological schema, or Fernald, the projector in 1912 of the first set of character tests in the form of questions designed to measure moral consciousness, we find that in the fourth decade of the present century, the psychological atmosphere is precipitate with the measurement of personality elements. I say “ personality elements ” advisedly, for not even the most sanguine investigator, to my knowledge, will, in the present stage of testing at least, go so far as to claim that he is actually measuring personality as a whole.
