BLEPP 2015 Baseline Data - Part 2

This is the part 2 of the BLEPP 2015 Baseline data about the occupation or job or respondents, their purpose of taking the licensure exam and future plans (Part 1 here).

Majority of the respondents are new graduates so they are not yet employed. Like the data last year majority are employed as human resource officers or specializing in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. A number works as guidance counselor or assistant and others are already practicing psychometricians.

Below are the main reasons commonly cited for wanting to become licensed Psychometrician:

1. For employment/Work/Job: Clinical, HR, Government, Academe/School, Guidance Counselor, Legal, Community (for job application and use in current work).
2. To administer Psychometric Test/purchase of assessment tools.
3. As compliance of DOH requirements on current work.
4. For career/Advancement/Credential/Promotion/upgrade knowledge.
5. To become a teacher/help younger generations. 

As to their future plans, majority or 91% have the intention to become future psychologists. It also reflect the other data wherein 25 respondents plan to take up graduate studies in Clinical Psychology.  

Data shows that the majority will take up Clinical Psychology followed by Industrial Psychology. Since most of the respondents are newly graduate so most have not yet thought of what to specialize for graduate school.

It is also interesting to note that there are other specialization that seems not ventured into by Psychology graduates like music therapy, child/developmental psychology, and social psychology among others.

The other table are the most cited schools/universities among survey respondents, top on the list is UST and PUP. However, some respondents did not specify the school/universities they plan to enroll for their graduate school. 

Part 1 - http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2015/03/blepp-2015-baseline-data.html

BLEPP 2015 Baseline Data

The following data were gathered from February 27 - March 16, 2015 with a total of  75 female respondents and 16 male respondents for a total 91 respondents. 

The sign up/survey is ongoing and some of the respondents were given review gift passes from the different review centers that were featured in this blog and our FB page.  

Thanks to all respondents for us to come up with this baseline data for BLEPP 2015.

More female first time takers are taking the licensure exam at 61% compared to their male counterpart at 10%. Those yet to graduate some are graduating this year and others in 2016/2017. A total of 20% both male and female will be retaking the licensure exam. 

Those in the age bracket of 20-22 and mostly females composed 50% or half of the respondents. The rest of the respondents' ages are spread from the youngest age at 17 and the oldest at 38. 

This data also confirms the age bracket of the majority of respondents. Most of them at 63%  have graduated in 2013, 2014 and this year, 2015. The rest at 34% graduated from the year 1997 up to 2012. 

Data shows that almost half  of the respondents are doing self-review at 48%. Although the number of those availing services of review center has also increased as compared to the data last year and some continue to avail online and distance review. 

Again this data confirms the preceding or above data,  those doing self review responded NA for their review center. Meanwhile, many of the survey respondents are availing the services of SPARK Psychology Review Center.

Survey respondents came from 53 different schools or universities. Seven of the respondents came from Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP).

Baseline Data of BLEPP 2014

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2014/08/initial-result-of-survey-and-sign-up.html

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2014/08/125-schools-represented-in-the-survey.html

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2014/08/survey-respondents-job-categories-and.html

To sign up and answer survey follow link below

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2015/02/sign-up-for-regular-updates-on-2015.html

Review Gift Pass: Napakahusay

"Napakalaking ginhawa ang dulot ng regalo ninyo – regalong handog, mula sa inyong mga butihing puso. Tamang tama para sa nalalapit nating #InternationalDayOfHappiness 
(March 20, 2015). 

Sa mga tumulong para maging posible ang bagay na ito, Philippine Psychometrician Reviewer Team, DigiPsych Team at Kuya Tino, nag-uumapaw na pagpapasalamat ang handog ko para sa inyo. Napakalaking bagay para sa 'kin ng oportunidad na 'to para sa July 2015. Ang ideya ng 'Review Gift Pass' ay napakahusay.

Napakasarap sa pakiramdam na mayroong tunay na regalong nag-hihintay sa mumunting hakbang na binigay ko. Pinagbubutihan ko ang aking reviews, at mas lalo ko pang paghuhusayin dahil sa suportang handog ninyo! Maraming salamat.

Alam kong masaya kayong tumutulong sa mga kagaya kong nangangarap para sa mas mabuting pamumuhay. Sana'y marami pa kayong matulungan. Pagpalain po ang inyong landasin! Mapagpalaya at mabuting araw para inyo."


-  Donnies Dejucos Bendicio
   Batch 2014
  University of Makati

www.digipsych.net

Awesome RGO Review Center for Psychology's Gift Pass

An awesome, thoughtful, and generous gift you gave me is proof of success.  Thank you! I don't know how you knew  what I wanted. You blew me away with your thoughtfulness and generosity. A second to formally thank you for this blessing can’t  express my deepest gratitude. 

Answered prayers for this BLEPP 2015. Your up-to-date post in social networking sites encourage me a lot to continue what I have started. To all, who made this program possible, a pleasant surprise to see the reward you gave me that came at a much needed time. I sincerely appreciate this present and assure you I will do my best to merit the trust  you've placed in me. 

God Bless to all!  Deo Gratia!

Deo Gratias RGO Review Center!

- Joel R. Barba

Review and Recall: THEORIES OF PERSONALITY

...the psychological study of personality, the application of the methods of science to the riddles posed by man's own behavior,is a relative newcomer. The answers produced by psychology are bound to be measured against those produced by the collective experience and wisdom civilized man down through the ages.

For there seem to be almost as many definitions of personality as there have been writers about it. 

Personality

... the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought (Allport, 1961).

... a person's unique pattern of traits (Guilford, 1959).

... those habits and habit systems of social importance that are stable and resistant to change (Guthrie, 1944).

... the organization of unique behavior equipment an individual has acquired under the special conditions of his development (Lundin, 1961). 

...the most adequate conceptualization of a person's behavior in all its detail (McClelland, 1951).

Source: Conceptions of Personality:Theories and Research by Leon H.Levy, Random House, 1970

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Recall and Review: Abnormal Psychology

1. Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder. Although many behaviours could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology generally deals with behavior in a clinical context.^[1] There is a long history of attempts to understand and control behavior deemed to be aberrant or deviant (statistically, morally or in some other sense), and there is often cultural variation in the approach taken. The field of abnormal psychology identifies multiple causes for different conditions, employing diverse theories from the general field of psychology and elsewhere, and much still hinges on what exactly is meant by "abnormal". There has traditionally been a divide between psychological and biological explanations, reflecting a philosophicaldualism in regard to the mind body problem. There have also been different approaches in trying to classify mental disorders. Abnormal includes three different categories, they are subnormal, supernormal and paranormal.^[2]

   The science of abnormal psychology studies two types of behaviors: adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. Behaviors that are maladaptive suggest that some problem(s) exist, and can also imply that the individual is vulnerable and cannot cope with environmental stress, which is leading them to have problems functioning in daily life.^[3] Clinical psychology is the applied field of psychology that seeks to assess, understand and treat psychological conditions in clinical practice. The theoretical field known as 'abnormal psychology' may form a backdrop to such work, but clinical psychologists in the current field are unlikely to use the term 'abnormal' in reference to their practice. Psychopathology is a similar term to abnormal psychology but has more of an implication of an underlying pathology (disease process), and as such is a term more commonly used in the medical specialty known as psychiatry.  Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnormal_psychology

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Recall and Review: Psychological Assessment

Most licensure exam takers in the BLEPP 2014 got low score if not failed  on this subject. Special focus and attention should be given to this subject since it is 150 items and it consists of 40% or double of any of the three other subjects (20%) in weight. In some school Psychological Assessment is named as Psychological Testing or Psychological Measurement.

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