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Recovery Man's Personality Inventory (RMPI)

About this inventory

The RMPI Inventory is an easy to use, paper and pencil style assessment that allows people to understand HOW they do what they do. Based on this knowledge an individual can adapt his or her behavior - based on the situation - and increase their personal effectiveness.

Reliability

Reliability is the degree of consistency with which a test measures what it is said to measure. Test length greatly affects reliability coefficients, with longer tests traditionally producing higher scores. Dr. J.C. Nunnally stated in the classic reference book, Psychometric Theory, that internal consistency reliability coefficients for short personality tests should range in the .70's to .80's. For example, the well researched Myers-Briggs Type Indicator reports internal consistency reliability for its four scales on general population samples to range from .61 to .87. Internal consistency reliability was computed on each of the four scales of the much shorter RMPI Inventory and the results ranged from .96 to .99. Thirty-day test-retest reliability produced scores ranging from .99 to 1.00. Given its very short length, the RMPI Inventory produced very solid reliability coefficients.

Validity

The validity scores of a test estimate how well the test measures what it purports to measure. Personality assessment tests usually produce validity scores for each of the individual traits measured. When scores on the traits of a test correlate well with scores on similar traits on other tests, the test is said to have good concurrent validity. Validity coefficients were computed on the RMPI Inventory traits by comparing these to the traits measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Sixteen Personality factors (16PF), and Holland Self-Directed Search (SDS). Very strong support for the validity of the traits measured by the RMPIInventory was garnered.

Take the test yourself to gain increased understanding of your personality:

Please indicate TRUE or FALSE next to each of the following statements:

  1. [True False] When I was younger, I used to tease vegetables.
  2. [True False] I think Bill Gothard could beat the $%#@! out of Pat Robertson.
  3. [True False] The sight of blood no longer excites me.
  4. [True False] I think beavers work too hard.
  5. [True False] It is important to wash your hands before washing your hands.
  6. [True False] Recently I have been getting shorter.
  7. [True False] When I walk quickly, I can feel my legs moving.
  8. [True False] When I was a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
  9. [True False] I believe I smell as good as most people.
  10. [True False] As a child, I used to wet the ceiling.
  11. [True False] I feel more like I do now than when I first started this test.
  12. [True False] Sometimes I feel that things are real.
  13. [True False] I have many enemies who secretly love me.
  14. [True False] I think I would like the work of a robot.
  15. [True False] As a youngster, I was suspended from school for attending.
  16. [True False] It makes me furious to see an innocent man escape the chair.
  17. [True False] I think I would like the work of a hummingbird.
  18. [True False] My tongue has been depressed.
  19. [True False] It makes me angry to have people bury me.
  20. [True False] People tell me one thing one day and out the other.
  21. [True False] I am easily awakened by the firing of cannons.
  22. [True False] I can wear my shirts as pants.
  23. [True False] I feel as much like I did yesterday as I do today.
  24. [True False] I always lick the fronts of postage stamps.
  25. [True False] When I smile, people apologize.
  26. [True False] It is hard for me to say the right thing when I find myself in a room full of mice.
  27. [True False] I never liked room temperature.
  28. [True False] I line my pockets with hot cheese.
  29. [True False] I can smell my nose hairs.
  30. [True False] My dog is someone else's best friend.
  31. [True False] Walls impede my progress.
  32. [True False] My toes are numbered.
  33. [True False] My best friend is a social worker.
  34. [True False] No napkin is sanitary enough for me.
  35. [True False] I've lost all sensation in my shirt.
  36. [True False] It takes a lot of argument to convince most people that they are lying.
  37. [True False] I try to steal other people's thoughts and ideas when they are not looking.
  38. [True False] I was not very strict with my parents.
  39. [True False] My sex life is satisfactory, except when I am with another person.
  40. [True False] I get nervous when I handle $100,000 bills.
  41. [True False] Most of the time I don't like to read newspaper articles about nuclear accidents nearby.
  42. [True False] I often dream of Kate Smith.
  43. [True False] I like to put chameleons on plaid cloth.
  44. [True False] I am liked by most people unless they know me.
  45. [True False] I believe I am following others.
  46. [True False] I don't like any of my loved ones.
  47. [True False] I salivate at the sight of mittens.
  48. [True False] I'd rather go to work than sit outside.
  49. [True False] As an infant, I had very few hobbies.
  50. [True False] Some people look at me.
  51. [True False] I often use the word "feh".
  52. [True False] Sometimes I steal objects like medicine balls and aviaries.
  53. [True False] I become homicidal when people try to reason with me.
  54. [True False] I never seem to finish whatever I
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