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Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire
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<p>The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) is a <a href="/facts/Personality_test/elzLWUmX">personality test</a> meant to measure normal personality developed by <a href="/facts/Auke_Tellegen/7YY4SXVV">Auke Tellegen</a> in 1982. It is currently sold by the <a href="/facts/University_of_Minnesota_Press/TFMhBlF6">University of Minnesota Press</a>. </p><p>The test in its various versions has had 300, 276 and 198 true-false items. The current version is the 276 items one. There also exists a short form with 155 items (MPQ-BF). The questionnaire gives ratings on four broad traits, Positive Emotional Temperament, Negative Emotional Temperament, Constraint and Absorption, as well as 11 primary trait dimensions. </p>