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Assessing Personality

Carl Rogers uses two basic techniques to measure and assess personality. First of all he used the phenomenological approach. Phenomenological assessment is a qualitive research. Most of the studies using this method are about life events from a person. It investigates the experiences people have gone through or are going through. In this method researchers collect remembered information. Participants recall events and feelings from the past, through interviews and written questionnaires.

Rogers also uses a idiographic approach. In this technique uniqueness is greatly stressed. No two personalities are exactly alike; therefore in this approach investigators believe that personality must be studied in terms of its own organization and not in comparison to other personalities. The idiographic approach also stresses the study of the whole personality.

What is Personality

Measuring Personality

Causes of Psychopathology

Life Experiences

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