Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential
The article on “Avoiding Burnout” made reference to the MAPP Assessment personality test. My future wife is a future counselor and one of the areas we both find interesting is learning about people and their motivations, so basically we analyze people all the time. Especially ourselves, so I thought I’d see what I could find on this test. Sure enough I found a free analysis that one could take. The only catch is once complete to get the full report, you must pay a fee. It’s a nominal fee for the report itself and the prices step-up the more information you want relating the report to specific careers.
Here are some of interesting results on my free report:
INTEREST IN JOB CONTENT (Those tasks you want to perform)
- Jeffrey has little need for or is not motivated by recognition, status, or competitive gain.
- Jeffrey prefers and may even require change and variety. Sameness and routine cause loss of interest, drive, and energy.
TEMPERAMENT FOR THE JOB (How you prefer to perform tasks)
- Jeffrey is open-minded, curious, creative, and innovative, having new ideas and concepts and preference to be involved.
- Jeffrey willingly accepts responsibility for exercising motivated talents.
There are 9 total areas and quite a few assessments made per area. I found this to be an interesting insight to who I am and what motivates me, and I believe it is a fairly accurate. I may even spend the 20 bucks for the complete detail of the report. I think I’ll even share it with my boss and encourage him to get our whole office to take it.
Posted by price at April 26, 2004 01:53 PM