The Road to Peak Performance Starts with Self-Awareness
We can administer a number of psychometric tests, to help you gain greater self-awareness of your personal characteristics. Greater self-awareness enables you to play to your strengths and understand your challenges, when it comes to striving to achieve - both day to day/in training and when under pressure/in competition.
Psychometric tests are strictly controlled psychological measures that meet rigorous scientific and professional standards. All psychometric tests are subject to licensing and copyright legislation: all tests can only be administered and interpreted by licensed test users who have undergone training in the theory, interpretation and provision of feedback of the test.
Please note that psychometric assessments are an additional service to therapeutic sessions and are not currently eligible for a medicare rebate. Please go to Fees and FAQs for further information relating to psychometric testing services.
Dynamic Performance Psychology is licensed in the following psychometric tests:
Personality
Personality has long been established as a stable and enduring construct of the human psyche. Most people are familiar with the personality concept of being ‘introverted or extraverted’ – psychological research over the last 80 years has established that personality is in fact made up of five ‘big factors’ (one of which is introversion/extraversion) which both describe and predict how we habitually interact with the world around us. Dynamic Performance Psychology can provide a detailed description of your personality profile, using the Hogan Personality Inventory.
Motives, Values and Preferences
Our motives, values and preferences can be thought of as the ‘drivers’ of our behaviour. These facets of our psyche determine why we feel passionate and enthused by certain goals, activities or situations - or conversely disengaged or disinterested by others. Dynamic Performance Psychology use the Hogan Motives, Values and Preferences Inventory (MVPI) to provide you with a thorough insight to what makes you tick.
Performance Strategies
When we are striving to achieve, psychological research has established there are a number of key behavioural strategies and psychological skills that determine how we approach a goal (for example, our attentional control, emotional control and self-talk, amongst others). The Test of Performance Strategies (TOPS) assessment provides a measure of the eight most salient psychological skills and processes thought to underlie successful performance (differentiating between day to day/training and competition/performance environments).
Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness describes the mindset that people habitually adopt towards everything they do. Closely related to constructs such as Grit and Resilience, empirical research has shown mental toughness to be the ‘x’ factor in predicting long term success across a variety of domains, from sport to business and both individually and in a team setting. A person’s Mental Toughness is made up of four facets - Control, Commitment, Challenge and Confidence, all of which can be improved by mental training. Dynamic Performance Psychology uses the highly regarded Mental Toughness Questionnaire (MTQ48) to provide you insights into your mental toughness.
Character Strengths
Founded in Positive Psychology, our Character Strengths can be thought of as the positive parts of personality that when used, make us feel authentic and engaged, living according to our ‘true self’. If you connect your goals to your character strengths, they become more personally relevant and easier to achieve. Character strengths are assessed using the VIA Character Strength Survey.