What are the advantages and disadvantages of self-report inventories?
What will be an ideal response?
Advantages of self-report inventories
• Standardized
• Easy to administer, score, and interpret
• Highly reliable, significant amount of empirical evidence
Limitations of self-report inventories
• Standardization procedure too mechanistic
• Require the cooperation of the client and the client to know him or herself
• Social desirability bias and client deception is possible
• Not all scales have validity scales
• Low predictive validity
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