The measurement of personality and behavior disorders by the I. P. A. T. Music Preference Test

Abstract

"A previously completed factor analysis of 120 very diverse musical excerpts was used… [to construct]… a Music Preference Test set up t measure 11 factors by 100 items on two sides of a long-playing record." It was hypothesized that the factors represented dimensions of personality, since the item groups did not correspond to musical schools or periods. The hypothesis was confirmed by many significant correlations with the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire Test on two samples of 102 and 71 Ss. Application of the Music Preference Test to 98 mental hospital patients yielded significant factor measure differences between psychotics and normals, and between various psychotic syndrome groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)