If you don’t see it here, try my companion site that contains general personality assessments not specific to the workplace. It is organized by batteries, abilities, affective traits, cognitive traits, maladaptive traits, and values.
- Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale. Clance 1985 The impostor phenomenon: When success makes you feel like a fake. Peachtree Publishers. Measure of impostor syndrome.
- Core Self-Evaluation Scale, CSES. From Judge, Erez, Bono, & Thoresen, 1993.
- International Work Addiction Scale (IWAS). Charzynska et al. 2025, Journal of Behavioral Addictions. Supplement with items in English.
- Multidimensional Workaholism Scale MWS. Clark et al. 2020, Journal of Applied Psychology. Three dimensions of motivation, cognition, emotion, and behavior.
- Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale. Short form, Rigotti et al. 2008, Journal of Career Assessment.
- Organizational Psychological Capital. Luthans et al. 2007, Personnel Psychology.
- Political Skill Inventory. Ferris et al., 2005. Measures 4 dimensions of political skill.
- Power distance orientation. Dorfman & Howell, 1988, Advances in Comparative Management.
- Risk aversion. From Judge, Thoresen, Pucik, & Welbourne.
- Tolerance for ambiguity. From Judge, Thoresen, Pucik, & Welbourne, 1999.
- Workplace Hostile Attribution Style Survey, WHAS.
Locus of Control
- Health Locus of Control Scale. Ross et al. 2015, Psychological Reports: Mental & Physical Health. Subscales of Internal, Powerful others, Chance.
- Shiftwork Locus of Control, SHLOC. Smith et al. 1995, Work & Stress. Subscales of Sleep, Social, Health, Work.
- Work Locus of Control Scale, WLCS. Spector, 1988, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
Values
- Occupational Values Inventory, OVI: Heimpel et al., 2025, Journal of Career Assessment.