Swedish Universities Scales of Personality (SSP) is a personality test

Personality test

-Overview:There are many different types of personality tests. The most common type, the self-report inventory, involves the administration of many questions, or "items", to test-takers who respond by rating the degree to which each item reflects their behavior...

 based on the older Karolinska Scales of Personality

Karolinska Scales of Personality

Karolinska Scales of Personality is a personality test.A newer version of the test is Swedish Universities Scales of Personality.KSP measures the personality with a 135 item questionnaire with answers on a four point Likert scale....

 (KSP).
It is originally in Swedish but has been translated to English.
The personality profile is presented in t-score (mean

Mean

In statistics, mean has two related meanings:* the arithmetic mean .* the expected value of a random variable, which is also called the population mean....

 50 and standard deviation

Standard deviation

Standard deviation is a widely used measure of variability or diversity used in statistics and probability theory. It shows how much variation or "dispersion" there is from the average...

 10).
Both the SSP questionnaire and the scoring algorithm is free of charge.

Personality dimensions

SSP includes 91 items and yields 13 personality scales:

• Somatic trait anxiety
• Psychic trait anxiety
• Stress susceptibility
• Lack of ascertiveness
• Impulsiveness
• Adventure Seeking
• Detachment
• Social Desirability
• Embitterment
• Trait Irritability
• Mistrust
• Verbal trait aggression
• Physical trait aggression