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It is clear from the preceding contributions that personality questionnaires are still alive, although prognostic judgments of their viability appear to range from “guarded” to “critical.” Psychometricians and even test constructors are often their own worst critics, and the present contributors are no exception to this generalization; the tone of most of the chapters is critical, tough-minded, and only guardedly optimistic. These are writers who have lived through the dark period in personality assessment which followed Mischel’s critique of the trait concept in personality theory and measurement. Their heads are bloody, but unbowed.
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Wiggins, J.S. (1986). Epilog. In: Angleitner, A., Wiggins, J.S. (eds) Personality Assessment via Questionnaires. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70751-3_13
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