A Development of an Online Personality Test of the Six Temperaments in Buddhism

Abstract

             The objectives of this research were 1. to develop an online personality test of the six temperaments in Buddhism, and 2. to calculate the quality of the online personality test and normalized T score to identify person temperament.  The online personality test was developed based upon the character traits and behavior of each temperament. Question items in the test were reviewed by five experts.  The Index of Item-Objective Congruence was calculated for content validity and the Cronbach’s Coefficient Alpha was also calculated for Internal Consistency Reliability. The six temperaments personality test consisted of 64 items. The test was implemented to the online version.  Population of this research was the group of people who can read Thai and have access to the Internet.  The sample of this research was the group people who were interested in their temperaments, being able to access the Internet and living in Bangkok, its surrounding, and urban areas.  The online personality of six temperaments were conducted by being distributed to the persons who the researcher had known and were asked to help him to distribute the test to other people via online media. This method is called the virtual snowball sampling.  There was a total of 654 respondents based upon Taro Yamane’s sample size calculation. The Excel and PSPP programs were used for statistical calculations of descriptive statistics, which included the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, z scores, and T scores. The person six temperaments were displayed with a bar chart. The highest T score of six temperaments was to indicate the person’s temperament.  The results of this research achieved the objectives of obtaining the tool, an online personality test measuring the six temperaments that can identify a person’s prominent temperament, and also his/her six temperaments with a bar chart.