CALIFORNIA PERSONALITY INVENTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does California Personality Inventory mean? 

• CALIFORNIA PERSONALITY INVENTORY (noun)
  The noun CALIFORNIA PERSONALITY INVENTORY has 1 sense:

1. a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.

  Familiarity information: CALIFORNIA PERSONALITY INVENTORY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALIFORNIA PERSONALITY INVENTORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

California Personality Inventory; CPI

Hypernyms ("California Personality Inventory" is a kind of...):

self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)