Broad coverage: Human beings can report on their private, unobservable, subjective world, their thoughts, and their emotions, as well as public observable events.Many self-report inventories can be completed very quickly, often in as little as 15 minutes. Efficiency: It is possible to administer large number of tests in relatively short space of time.MMPI-2 and 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire are couple of famous self-Report Inventories. They can be obtained through questionnaires, inventories, or scales containing set of relevant verbal statements and a variety of response formats (true or false options, checklists, scaled responses, etc.). Self-reports are the most common assessment procedures for collecting data in psychology and psychological assessment. There are three types of self-report tests: Direct self-ratings, Indirect self-reports and Open-ended self-descriptions. A self-report method is a data collection technique used in personality assessment where the information about the subject is provided by the subject itself.
