Horney-Coolidge Tridimensional Inventory

The HCTI is a 57-item personality measure based on the theory of the revolutionary psychoanalyst Karen Horney (1885-1992) that normal people move freely along three dimensions: Moving Toward Others (Compliant Type), Moving Against Others (Aggressive Type), or Moving Away from Others (Detached Type). Horney proposed that neurotic individuals were often fixated along a single dimension. The HCTI has empirically demonstrated test-retest and scale reliability and construct validity (with modern personality disorders), and the HCTI has norms on 630 purportedly normal people age 15 years old to 90 years old.

For more information, contact Professor Frederick L. Coolidge ([email protected]).