Swedish Universities Scales of Personality

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Swedish universities Scales of Personaliy or SSP is a personality test based on the older KSP, Karolinska Scales of Personality. It is originally in swedish but has been translated to english. The personality profile is presented in t-score (mean 50 and standard deviation 10). Both the SSP questionnare and the scoring algorithm is free of charge.

[edit] 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

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1. ^ Gustavsson et al: Swedish universities Scales of Personality (SSP): construction, internal consistency and normative data. ACTA psychiatrica Scandinavia 2000