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Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire

Personality test

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) is a personality test meant to measure normal personality developed by Auke Tellegen in 1982. It is currently sold by the University of Minnesota Press.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Multidimensional, Personality and Questionnaire is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.