Hi Marion

What do you want to assess? Personality? Character? Temperament? And for which goal? If you clarify these questions maybe I can help you.

I have some experience with TCI, what is your research question?

TCI is an interesting scale. Need to be careful with some of the subscales because they are not balanced for acquiescence. This creates a problem for their construct validity (e.g., the transcendence scale). My preference is for the NEO PI-R (3); it is a very empirically robust and interpretively useful instrument. Gives lots of information. With the TCI, it is not clear how the temperament and character scales really relate to one another and their relations with external criteria.

I agree that you need to be careful with some of the sub-scales, and you need to know the validity and reliability data on your examined population... But we need your research question to provide you a useful answer. I like that TCI can answer some interesting detail what other questionnaires cannot, but it depends what is your field of interest :)

Thank you all for your answers/comments.

Omid and Zsuzsanna, my research question is "how temperament and personality traits, especially persistence/resilience/optimism and cognitive structure/openess impact decision-making in career choice", i.e. to work in an institution vs in an internationalized/zing SMEs or to become an entrepreneur? Thanks :)

TCI is gold standard for assessing temperament and charater triats as persistance but in order to evaluating openness as a personality construct, l suggest NEO-PR short form. It doesn't need full scale of NEO for your project.

I have used the TCI 140 version in research and found it robust. We used it in addition with some other scales to measure additional constructs that the TCI don't measure. 

Hi everyone,

Apologies for posting on an old thread, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I could get hold of the TCI? I can't seem to find this info anywhere and would appreciate any help!

Best regards,

Haeme

To obtain the TCI you will need to order it directly from:

Center for Psychobiology of Personality, 4940 Children's Place, St., Louis, MO 63110 USA. You can call them at 314-362-7005.

Ralph L Piedmont - thank you for your quick response!