Personality Trait Survey Project

Scoring and Interpretation

Scoring

• You are to begin scoring your surveys from the negative end of the first line. Fill in numbers starting with 1 and numbering consecutively, filling in the blanks until you run into an “X”, at which point you will stop. You will then drop down to the next line, start at the negative line ending and continue numbering. Notice that the negative line endings are not always on the left side of the page. Keep numbering for both page which will produce a sum total usually within the range of 150-330.

Graphing

• You are to create a three line graph (sample is shown on the next slide). Take the survey marked “The Ideal me” and make a dot on the graph line marked “Ideal”, do the same with “Real Self” survey on the “Real Self” graph line, and all “Others” on the “Others” graph line. Make a circle using the dot on the graph line as the center for each. A poker chip is an ideal size and shape for circle. Be sure to label each “Other” (sample slide follows the blank graph)

330

Others

Ideal

Real

282

234

186

138

282

234

186

138

282

234

186

138

330

Others

Ideal

Real

282

234

186

138

282

234

186

138

282

234

186

138

mom

friend

dad

Interpreting• Carl Rogers indicated that we all have three personalities: our real self,

our ideal self, and our self as seen by others around us. He further stated that that the best of situations occurs when there is the highest degree of congruence between the three personalities. Congruence is of course a term Rogers borrowed from the world of geometry, and it has to do with how close things are to each other. So, in a totally ideal situation, all the circles on the three way graph would align and we would only see one circle. Of course in our real world this is quite impossible. So, in interpreting the project graphs, the more circles that intersect, or become congruent, the better. If your Ideal You intersects with your Real You, you are probably being pretty realistic about yourself. The more the Others circles intersect with your Ideal and Real circles, the more truthful you are being with the outside world. Who you really are is pretty much who the rest of the world sees.

Report

• Your one page report should begin to speculate as to why there is incongruence in your graph and what it may suggest about your personality. Please include a graph with your report.