A test checking for traits of the following personality disorders has just been put online:
- Psychopathy / Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
Even among professionals, there is confusion about the meanings and differences between psychopathy, sociopathy, antisocial and histrionic personality disorder, and much more so amongst persons who sense problems in their relation to others but need orientation on where these problems might derive from. This test tries to assist in checking for traits of each of these disorders separately and then giving separate results for each of them.
http://www.counseling-office.com/surveys/test_psychopathy.phtml
To achieve as accurate results as possible, this self-assessment combines screening methods based on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (used in contemporary research and clinical practice to assess psychopathy) and clinical markers for narcissistic personalities and histrionic personality disorder according to the diagnostic manuals DSM-IV and ICD-10. The test thus has a relatively high potential to achieve reliable results even when done over the Internet – however, it has to be mentioned that particularly for the personality disorders tested, the quality of the result might be lower if the person doesn’t answer honestly or is delusional, both parameters that are actually potential traits of a psychopathic or antisocial personality.
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Peter Reply
WOW! – The fact that these tests are available online is potentially great news for the world at large…
It is HIGH time that the people gain opportunity to prevent mentally distorted “high achievers” from gaining positions of power.
– (Eg.s – Hitler, Gadaffi, Kim II-sung,… and countless other historical and current “leaders”, coporporate executives (the Enron crooks, Bernard Madoff…), politicians, lobbyists….
In my opinion, if properly implemented, this holds potential for the well intentioned masses (the 99%?) to take back control from those are simply unfit to weild power over others lives.
I believe that access to tools like this through the internet may yet be humanity’s salvation. Thank you for this important contribution !!!