Psychological Test, Minnesota Personality Scale (For Women)
date: label: date made
content: 1941
name: label: author
content: McNamara, W. J.
label: author
content: Darley, J. G.
label: maker
content: Psychological Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Psychologists John Gordon Darley (1910-1990) and Walter J. McNamara (1908-1982) were both at the University of Minnesota in the late 1930s. Darley received his PhD. there in 1937 and worked in the Student Counseling Bureau. He later would become an assistant to the dean of the graduate school, and then dean of the graduate school himself.
label: Description
content: McNamara was a graduate student who received his PhD. in 1938 and would work at IBM as an industrial psychologist, perhaps most notably creating a programmer’s aptitude test.
label: Description
content: This is the first edition of a personality scale Darley and McNamara published in 1941. It was specifically designed to test the personality of women – they prepared a similar scale for men. Characteristics tested included morale, social adjustment, family relations, emotionality, and economic conservatism. This test did not prove as influential as another test of personality developed at the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
label: Description
content: Compare 1989.0710.31(the 1941 test for men) and 1990.0034.058 (also the 1941 test for men).
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: American Psychological Association, <I>1962 Directory</I>, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p. 155, 481.
label: Description
content: Taxler, Arthur E., “Psychological Tests and Their Uses,” <I>Review of Educational Research</I>, 14 #1, 1944, p. 56.
label: Description
content: “Walter J. McNamara,” <I>Rutland [Vermont] Daily Herald</I>, May 10, 1982.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.059
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 21.4 cm x 27.6 cm; 1/32 in x 8 7/16 in x 10 7/8 in