An Applied Study Of Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Inventory Employed In Personality Assessment Of Chinese Communist Party And Governmental Cadres

Personality is a stable, habitualized thinking mode and behavioral style, which prevails in a person's entire psychology and can be considered as a whole portrayal of one's uniqueness. As leaders of a harmonious society, personality of Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres is especially important for it will permeate through their leading activities; affect their behavioral style and decision-making and determine their final achievements as well. Researches show that personality has a specific connection with management. Personality assessment of Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres conducted with mature personality test thus can offer some evidence to personnel arrangement and personnel adjustment.Present researches concerned with personality of Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres generally employ Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Inventory (16PF) as their research instrument. This inventory has three Chinese editions, Liu Yonghe's edition sampled in Hong Kong, Li Shaoyi's edition sampled in Liaoning Province and Dai Zhongheng and Zhu Beili's edition mainly sampled among college students. Limited sample collection contributes to the inaccurate date analysis, resulting in different findings carried by the same survey. According to the principle that norm should be revised every 3-5 years, these norms obviously cannot assess personality characteristic accurately because 20 years have passed since their first revision. Therefore, the modification of 16PF for party and governmental cadres becomes necessary and urgent. This study aims to revise 16PF with a desire to make more it reliable and effective in the personality assessment of Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres.Choosing Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres as research subjects, this study aims to investigate how 16PF (Dai Zhongheng and Zhu Beili's edition) has been applied with Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres. Samples have been collected in Shandong Province and some items have been deleted by quantitative and qualitative approaches. Based on norm of Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres formulated, another two norms have also been designed, norm of male cadres and norm of female cadres. An applied preliminarily research employed with 16PF(Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres's edition) has been conducted as well. Overall personal characteristics and group differences, for instance, sex, age, rank, department, years of schooling, area are included as variables and a further investigation has been carried out on causes of these differences. It is supposed to provide some evidence to personnel arrangement, adjustment and training.The main findings are as follows:1. Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Inventory, which contains 174 items (Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres's edition), thus is recommended as research instrument employed in future personality assessment of Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres.2. Statistically significant differences have been proved with Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres have higher values than adult(male) norm in A,B,C,F,G,H,N,Q3 and lower values in E,I,L,O,Q1,Q2,Q4.3. Personal characteristics of Chinese Communist Party and gowernmental cadres have been demonstrated to have statistically significant differences in aspects of sex, age, rank, department, years of schooling and area.