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Personality Paradoxicality Scale Test

Learn how well you balance conflicting demands and roles in just 8 minutes. Get a clear profile to boost leadership under pressure, cut stress, and work well with diverse teams.
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Degree of Personality Paradoxicality (A) (DoPP()
Measures your ability to integrate contradictions by viewing situations from multiple perspectives and working effectively with conflicting information.
Lower paradoxicality
Moderate paradoxicality
High paradoxicality
0 – 3: Lower paradoxicality | 4 – 7: Moderate paradoxicality | 8 – 10: High paradoxicality
A score of 7 indicates a moderate degree of paradoxicality, suggesting you can often balance opposing demands and use differing viewpoints to make effective decisions, especially under pressure.
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People Managers Under Pressure
41%OF USERS
Managers and team leads take it to see how well they balance conflicting demands, switch styles quickly, and stay effective under stress.
HR and Hiring Teams
34%OF USERS
Recruiters and HR partners use it to screen leadership candidates for adaptability, resilience, and fit for complex roles.
Coaching and Self-Development
25%OF USERS
Coachees and growth-minded professionals take it to understand their inner contradictions and turn them into a practical leadership advantage.
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Degree of Personality Paradoxicality (A) (DoPP()
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5.9
Normal range
4.4 — 7.3
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What does this questionnaire measure?
It measures how well a person can integrate conflicting demands, roles, or traits into a workable approach. It also indicates whether tensions are managed in ways that support effective decisions under pressure.
Who is this questionnaire intended for?
It is intended for people working in leadership, supervisory, or coordination roles with frequent competing expectations. It may also be used for coaching, selection, and self-assessment in complex work settings.
How should items be answered?
Responses should reflect typical behavior across recent situations rather than rare events. Select the option that best matches usual patterns, even when more than one option seems partly true.
How long does it take and how many items are included?
The questionnaire includes 40 items and typically takes about 8 minutes to complete. Completion time may vary based on reading speed.
How should the results be interpreted?
Results describe a profile of how consistently opposing demands are balanced and used as a resource in leadership behavior. They should be interpreted alongside role requirements and other relevant information, not as a stand-alone diagnosis.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES
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Degree of Personality Paradoxicalness Test

Personality Paradoxicality Scale Test

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This self-report measure is designed to assess an individual’s capacity to recognize and integrate opposing or conflicting tendencies in their behavior and role-related demands. The Personality Paradoxicality Scale is intended for use in contexts where flexibility and effective functioning amid competing expectations are clinically or organizationally relevant.

The instrument contains 40 items and typically requires about 8 minutes to complete. Items ask respondents to rate themselves in situations that may involve shifting between interpersonal styles, problem-solving approaches, and social roles; responses are summarized to provide an index of paradoxicality as a personal characteristic. In applied settings, the Personality Paradoxicality Scale may inform discussion of stress tolerance, adaptability, and decision-making under ambiguity; interpretation should be integrated with other assessment data and the referral question (Costa & McCrae).

Author: Paul T. Costa Jr., Robert R. McCrae
Literature: Deutsch, M., Coleman, P. T., & Marcus, E. C. (Eds.). The handbook of conflict resolution: Theory and practice. Jossey-Bass. 2006.
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