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KYKO, an acronym for Know Yourself, Know Others

KYKO Personality Profile is a psychometric test developed by integrating the most accurate parts of multiple schools of personality theory resulting in more of the personality tested.  Tests taken in context of a specific job role, deliver greater knowledge and improved accuracy.

How KYKO Personality Profile psychometric tests are put to use:

A KYKO Personality Profile psychometric test offers specific job role testing for organisations such as Management roles: Senior Manager, Manager, and Sales Manager, for Sales: Corporate Sales, Consumer Sales, Sales Professional and Sales Recruit, and for general staffSupervisor, Bank Teller plus many more. 

For the Education sector we offer Head Principle, Teacher, Graduate, Undergraduate and more. 

KYKO Personality Profile psychometric tests can be tailored to your exact organisation needs, by developing bespoke tests for each job role in your organisation.  Please contact for further information.

 
KYKO Personality Profile - Psychometric Tests

KYKO Personality Profile is a psychometric test instrument to discover yourself and other personality profile. KYKO was designed and researched since 1976 by Bernard Ah Thau Tan, based on the integration of the existing personality theories incorporating with the needs and deprivation theories to understand the intricate complexities of human behaviour.

KYKO was designed based on the following premises:

  • Human behaviour is motivated by needs satisfaction and deprivation
  • Human personality lies in the continuum of relatively static and dynamic
  • Human personality lies in the continuum of normal and abnormal
  • Human personality is unique, no two persons are alike
  • Human personality is not constant. It varies with the experiences in the environment
  • Human personality is developed from the genes and past experiences from the environment
  • Future experiences continually shapes a person's personality

KYKO Personality Profile psychomtric test consists of five (5) dimensions as follows: -

  • Self-Actualizing Self- The behavioural traits or quality of an individual that depicts the need for growth, progress, improvement, and fulfillment and to find meanings in life.
  • Egocentric Self - The behavioural traits or quality of an individual that depicts the need for power, image and control.
  • Sociocentric Self- The behavioural traits or quality of an individual that depicts the need for love, care, companionship and affiliation.
  • Security Self - The behavioural traits or quality of an individual that depicts the need for security, order, systems and protection.
  • Adaptive Self - The behavioural traits or quality of an individual that depicts the need to adapt and change for survival and growth.

Based on the five (5) dimensions, ten (10) personality types are identified.

  • Egocentric Dimension - Aggressive Type Vs Submissive Type
  • Sociocentric Dimension - Social Type Vs Asocial Type
  • Security Dimension - Pragmatic Type Vs Adventurous Type
  • Self-Actualizing Dimension - Normal Type Vs Neurotic Type
  • Manipulative Dimension - Dynamic Type Vs Static Type

Each type is made up of a list of traits and characteristic both positive and negative.

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The five (5) dimensions are organized in to spider web showing the relative strength of each dimension. The process of organizing the relative strength of each of the five dimensions is called "webbing" because the procedure creates a 'spider web' of the person's personality profile. Below is an example of a spider web of KYKO Personality Profile:

Spider web of KYKO Personality Profile

The shape of the spider web depicting the high, average and low of the ten (10) personality types is used to identify human traits and characteristics to explain human differences.

 
KYKO Personality Profile Dimensions:

Self-Actualizing Self
The need for growth, progress, self development, achievement and fulfillment 
Adaptive Self
The need to adapt, change and be flexible to survive in a turbulent dynamic environment.
Egocentric Self
The need for power, image and control
Sociocentric Self
The need for love, care, companionship and affiliation
Security Self
The need for safety, system, structure, order and protection