Personal Style Inventory Sample Items

The Personal Style Inventory contains 32 pairs of statements that pertain to personal preferences. Individuals rate each statement pair by dividing 5 points between them. The higher the number assigned, the stronger the preference.

The following is a sampling of items linked to the 8 dimensions of personality:

Extraversion or Introversion
Active, energetic time with people.
Quiet, thoughtful time alone.

Sensing or Intuiting
Dealing with actualities.
Thinking about possibilities.

Thinking or Feeling
Being thought of as a thinking person.
Being thought of as a feeling person.

Judging or Perceiving
Pushing for definite commitments to ensure that they are made.
Allowing commitments to occur if others want to make them.
  

Excerpted from the Personal Style Inventory by David W. Champagne, EdD, and R. Craig Hogan, PhD
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