Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The validity of handwriting elements in relation to self-report personality trait measures Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert P. Tett Cynthia A. Palmer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Language A language of the resource English Zotero Title The validity of handwriting elements in relation to self-report personality trait measures Item Type Journal Article Author Robert P. Tett Cynthia A. Palmer URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886996001833 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 11 - 18 Publication Title Personality and Individual Differences ISSN 0191-8869 Date 1997 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00183-3 Language English Abstract Note Research on graphology has provided mixed results regarding its validity in applied settings. Increasing popularity of this method (Edwards & Armitage, 1991) calls for continued evaluation. The current study sought to validate a popular graphoanalysis method proposed by Bunker (1979), which links specific handwriting elements to personality traits. Content-neutral handwriting of 49 college students was analyzed for 30 elements (e.g. length of t-cross) by two trained coders working independently. Participants also completed the Jackson Personality Inventory—Revised (JPI-R; Jackson, 1994), which measures 15 normal personality traits. Inter-rater agreement in handwriting analysis was moderately high (median reliability = 0.80). Both predicted and non-predicted correlations between handwriting elements and JPI-R scales were significant at around chance levels (i.e. 5%). In particular, of the 119 predicted relations, only six (5.0%) were significant in the expected direction and five (4.1%) were significant in the opposite direction. All told, current findings replicate those of previous studies and suggest limited value in hand-writing analysis as a predictive tool.