What the Bernreuter personality inventory does not measure

Abstract

"Among college students the Bernreuter personality inventory in its four traits in no instance is measuring 'scholastic aptitude,' 'fundamental mental abilities,' 'complex mental processes,' 'judgment,' 'verbal discrimination,' 'common sense,' 'visual concrete learning capacity,' 'general information content,' 'motor control and coordination,' or 'the ideational content or moral concepts in emotional response.' " (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)