MANCHESTER PERSONALITY

QUESTIONNAIRE VERSION 14
(MPQ)
DONNA SHEBA BRAGA &
REA DITH SAJULAN
MANCHESTER PERSONALITY
QUESTIONNAIRE VERSION 14

• It was developed to provide an occupational test,

which focuses on traits relevant to creative and
innovative behavior.
• It provides an assessment of personality based
on occupationally relevant personality factors.
• It is 90 item consists of multiple choice
statement (A, B, C, D, E)
MPQ can be used in two ways:
1. It used as part of a selection battery for
predicting job performance provided that the
personality predictors have been established
from job analysis and validation research.

2. It used as an enabling tool to help explore

candidate suitability.
 MPQ PERSONALITY
DIMENSIONS are based on a
factor model of personality that
is both the personality scales
and the BIG FIVE FACTORS.
PRIMARY FACTORS
1. Originality 8. Competitiveness
2. Rule Consciousness 9. Conscientiousness
3. Openness to change 10. Independence
4. Assertiveness 11. Rationality
5. Social Confidence 12. Decisiveness
6. Empathy 13. Perfectionism
7. Communicativeness 14. Apprehension
BIG FIVE FACTORS
• Creativity - Measure personal problem solving
nature of individual creativity and social nature
of innovation.
▫ Elements: Originality, Rule Nonconformity, Openness,
Assertiveness & Independence.
• Agreeableness – measure how individuals relate
to each other.
▫ Elements: Empathy, Social Confidence, Affiliation,
Rationality
BIG FIVE FACTORS
• Achievement – provides measure of the
achievement motivation.
▫ Elements: Perfectionism, Conscientiousness,
Competitiveness, Decisiveness and Independence.
• Extroversion - measure extroversion in
personality.
▫ Elements: Communicativeness, Spontaneity,
Affiliation, Social Confidence.
• Resilience – measure emotional stability.
▫ Elements: Calmness, Decisiveness and Self- Reliance.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE TEST
• It a pencil-and-paper test.
• Test materials comprise reused questionnaire
booklets, answer forms, and normed profile charts.
• The questionnaire contains about how the test taker
act, think or feel in different situations.
• Test taker needs to indicate the extent which each
statement applies to them using the rating scare
shown on the top of each page of the booklet.
• It takes 20 minutes to answer.
• Test instructs the test taker to tick() the square
which correspond the rating they have chosen.
SCORING AND INTERPRETATION
• Scoring keys are printed on the bottom of the
MPQ 14 answer sheet.
• It can be done manually.
• It is done in two stages: First, workout STEN
Score for the primary personality scales; Second,
calculate the Big Five Factors scores using the
primary personality STEN score.
Factors Low Score High Score
Description Description
Originality Implements ideas and Originates Action,
changes Invents
Rule consciousness Keeps to rules, Challenges
reduces risk assumptions, takes risk
Openness to change Practical, grounded, Imaginative, change
task oriented oriented, experimental
Assertiveness Holds back ideas, Assertive, persuasive,
gives way to others convincing
Social confidence Less comfortable in Fits in quickly interacts
social situation effectively
Empathy Individualistic, self- Supportive, sensitive,
reliant considerate
Communicativeness Reserved, quiet, Communicative, open,
distant from people expressive
Factors Low Score High Score
Description Description
Independence Sociable, group Self-contained, works
oriented well alone
Rationality Intuitive, spontaneous Logical, reflective,
systematic
Competitiveness Accommodating, less Committed to career,
committed to career contesting
Conscientiousness Radical, rebellious , Conscientious,
challenging, expedient preserving
Perfectionism Less methodical, less Quality driven, detail
detail oriented oriented, methodical
Decisiveness Cautious, slower to Decisive, controlling
take initiative
Apprehension Calm, relaxed Apprehensive, worried
Big Five Factors Low Score High Score
Description Description

Creativity Adaptive, pragmatic, Innovative, change

implementation oriented, non-
focused conformist

Agreeableness Individualistic, self- Participative, rational,

reliant, independent team player

Achievement Accommodating, Quality driven,

expedient achieving,
conscientious

Extroversion Reserved, socially Communicative,

inhibited, introvert outgoing, extrovert

Resilience Apprehensive, Calm, stable, decisive

worried, anxious