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The Ten Words Personality Inventory

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10WPI

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The Ten Words Personality Inventory (10WPI) is an instrument for personality assessment that was designed by D. Garcia (Garcia et al. 2015b) to ask participants to freely generate self-descriptive words and narratives. It contains one question asking participants to describe their personality using ten words and one question asking to freely describe their personality. The 10WPI was designed for quantitative analyses using computerized methods, such as quantitative semantics (Sikström and Garcia 2019), but can also be used for the combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses (e.g., Garcia et al. 2018, 2019a, b). The 10WPI has been translated in different languages (e.g., Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, Swedish) and exist in various versions for assessing self-presentation in different contexts (e.g., job interviews) and/or number of words (e.g., 3, 5 or 10 words).

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The development of this encyclopedia entry was funded by a grant from the Swedish Research Council (Dnr. 2015–01229). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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  1. Blekinge Center of Competence, Region Blekinge, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Danilo Garcia

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Danilo Garcia

  3. Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Sverker Sikström

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    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

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Garcia, D., Sikström, S. (2019). The Ten Words Personality Inventory. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2314-1

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