Hogan Personality Inventory - TECHNICAL FACTS

The HPI contains items that are keyed true and false. The items have been carefully reviewed for invasive or intrusive content and to ensure the inventory has no adverse impact on race/ethnicity or gender. The total completion time is 15 - 20 minutes with a 4th-grade reading level.

The HPI is based on socioanalytic theory. Within this context, getting along with, and getting ahead of others become dominant themes in social life. The seven scales of the HPI capture key behavioral tendencies relevant to these life themes.

Norms are available by group in sizes ranging up to 30,000 cases, and over 1,000,000 job candidates have been tested with the HPI. Data are available for virtually every industry and job category in the U.S. economy.

HPI scores are stable over time; test-retest reliabilities range from .74 to .86. The HPI has been used in over 400 validity studies, and it successfully predicts occupational success in all major job categories. The HPI research archives date back to the mid 1970s, and the inventory is one of the most widely used measures for research on personality