The most common type is the self-report inventory, also commonly referred to as objective personality tests.

Personality is often assessed using a self-report inventory or observer report inventory.

However, since this is a self-report inventory how reliable the assessment is depends on how accurate participants rate themselves.

This self-report inventory was developed from the use of "sentence completion" and other association techniques on male subjects under drug and no-drug conditions.

Self-esteem is typically assessed using a self-report inventory yielding a score on a continuous scale from low to high self-esteem.

The tests included a self-report inventory of gastrointestinal symptoms.

The Humor Styles Questionnaire is a 32-item self-report inventory used to identify how individuals use humor in their lives.

A self-report inventory is a type of psychological test in which a person fills out a survey or questionnaire with or without the help of an investigator.

There are three major approaches to developing self-report inventories: theory-guided, factor analysis, and criterion-key.

Clinical discretion is advised for all self-report inventories.