Contextualizing psychological testing in Ghana

• Authors: Oppong Seth
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Psychology has many applications including psychological testing. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify the types of tests used in Ghana and discuss the problems associated with the current state of psychological testing in Ghana. It was concluded that the current state of psychological testing has been too Eurocentric and Westernized. As a result, it limits the applicability and usefulness of the tests in the Ghanaian setting. After this critical evaluation, suggestions were then made for the improving psychological testing in terms of construction of Ghana-centric tests and validation of imported tests. Though this paper focuses on Ghana, it is expected that the discussions and recommendations would equally be relevant for other non-European and non-American populations of world.

Keywords

Indigenous Psychology; Psychological Testing; Ghana

• Publisher: University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Psychologie a její kontexty
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-17

Contributors

author

Oppong Seth

• Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana