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DISC is a behaviour self-assessment tool originally based on the 1928 DISC emotional and behavioural theory of psychologist William Moulton Marston, which centred on four personality traits: Dominance, Inducement, Submission, and Compliance. This theory was then developed into a behavioural assessment tool by industrial psychologist Walter Vernon Clarke.

History[edit]

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Marston was a lawyer and a psychologist; he also contributed to the first polygraph test, authored self-help books and created the character Wonder Woman. He generated the DISC characteristics of emotions and behavior of normal people (at the time, 'normal' had the meaning of 'typical' rather than an antonym for 'abnormal'). Marston hypothesised that our behaviour is influenced by ‘psychonic energy’ that is transferred through a web of nerve cells he named ‘psychons’.

He published his findings in his 1928 book called Emotions of Normal People in which he explained that the four personality types (yellow, green, blue and red) arise as variations between people. According to Marston, people illustrate their emotions using four behavior types: Dominance (D), Inducement (I), Submission (S), and Compliance (C). He argued that these behavioural types came from people's sense of self and their interaction with the environment.^[1] He based the four types on two underlying dimensions that influenced people's emotional behaviour. The first dimension is whether a person views their environment as favourable or unfavourable. The second dimension is whether a person perceives themselves as having control or lack of control over their environment.

Although Marston contributed to the theory of the DISC itself, he did not create the DISC self-assessment. In 1956, Walter Clarke, an industrial psychologist, constructed an self-assessment based on Marston's theory. Clarke created the Activity Vector Analysis, a self-checklist of adjectives on which he asked people to indicate descriptions that were accurate about themselves.^[2] This self-assessment was intended for use in businesses needing assistance in choosing qualified employees.

There have evolved several more nuanced and updated versions of DISC and self-assessments of personal profiles in general. As psychometric science, theory and practice have advanced, so to has the original DISC theory and descriptions of behavioural clusters, as well as self-assessment techniques. After about 2000, the DISC has been operationalised to address behavioural vectors of Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness, still using self-assessment. With the advent of adaptive and customised reporting made available through computer-based questionnaire self-assessment, DISC reports today offer more nuanced and provocative reports, still based on self-assessment methods. It's critical to note that DISC self-assessments are both sensitive to the context to which the DISC questionnaire is completed, and the outputs are ultimately of self-reported behaviours and thus should not be considered as predictive, observed, 'psychological traits' per se. They are self-reported behaviours that any person can and should reflect over their actual relevance or even validity for themselves. There are many possible errors in DISC self-assessment: misunderstanding of the questions; overthinking of responses; fear of evaluation of results; changes in contexts where results might not hold; etc. Emphasis should always be placed on each person reflecting over the relevance of their own results, with absolute power to even reject the results. However, frequently, surprises help respondents discover how others might perceive differently ones own behavioural repertoire to how a person's behaviours are actually intended. Such insight is very valuable in collaborating with others who have different behavioural repertoires, and even in potentially countering bias that comes for 'like-mindedness'.

Merenda, Peter F. and Clarke published their findings on a new instrument in the January 1965 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology.'^[3] Instead of using a checklist, the 'Self Discription' test forced respondents to make a choice between two or more terms. Factor analysis of this assessment added to the support of a DISC-based instrument. 'Self Discription' was used by John Geier to create the Personal Profile System in the 1970s.^[4] Geier's DiSC assessment would eventually become Everything DiSC which is now owned by John Wiley & Sons.

DISC has been used to help determine a course of action when dealing with problems as a leadership team—that is, taking the various aspects of each type into account when solving problems or assigning jobs.^[5]

Criticism[edit]

There are various representative bodies for psychology and psychologists that are responsible for the promotion of excellence and ethical practice in science, education, and application of the discipline, such as the British Psychological Society. None of these speak to the use of DISC.^[6]

The shortcomings of DISC have been discussed in the literature, mainly by non-psychologists. For example, journalist Emma Goldberg compares tests like DISC with astrology.^[7]

One recent book Surrounded by Idiots, written by author Thomas Erikson, addressed DISC. This book tends to overlook and oversimplify the importance of contextualising DISC discussions. Erikson was given the Fraudster of the Year award in 2018 by a critical group Swedish Skeptics, mainly for making scientific claims that were not supported by any scientific research.^[8] Swedish Skeptics is part of the European Council of Sceptical Organisations, a volunteer interest community which 'aims to co-ordinate activities of European organisations and individuals that aim at critically investigating pseudoscientific statements and claims regarding observations of paranormal phenomena, and to make the results of its investigations known to the broad public.' ECSO's criticism is of Erikson, and of the validity of the construct of personality itself, per se. The sceptical position of negating the construct of human personality itself, is of course grounds itself for debate, one better left for a much more valuable scientific discourse elsewhere. Certified practitioners (excluding Erikson) effectively using DISC rarely make universal 'behavioural predictive claims.' Which points to the importance of acknowledging some limitations to self-report-based questionnaire assessments, like DISC, while emphasising their value in providing a framework for interpersonal sharing and reflection, more than as a viable predictive, psychometric trait test. The DISC is of most value as an interpersonal conversation lens and frame, and not at a predictive personality test, and few (mis)use it as such a predictive test.

See also[edit]

• Psychometrics

Notes[edit]

1. ^Marston, William M. (1928). Emotions of Normal People. K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. pp. 405.
2. ^Wallace, S. Rains; Clarke, WALTER V.; Dry, RAYMOND J. (September 1956). 'The Activity Vector Analysis as a Selector of Life Insurance Salesmen'. Personnel Psychology. 9: 337–345. doi:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1956.tb01072.x.
3. ^Merenda, Peter F.; Clarke, Walter V. (January 1965). 'Self description and personality measurement'. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 21: 52–56. doi:10.1002/1097-4679(196501)21:1<52::AID-JCLP2270210115>3.0.CO;2-K.
4. ^'DISC History'. Center for Internal Change. Center for Internal Change. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
5. ^Beamish, G. (2005). How chief executives learn and what behavior factors distinguish them from other people. Industrial and Commercial Training, 37(3), 138–144.
6. ^'Shortcomings of DISC Profiling'. www.salesteamfocus.com. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
7. ^Goldberg, Emma (2019-09-18). 'Personality Tests Are the Astrology of the Office (Published 2019)'. The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
8. ^'Personality Test Pseudoscience – Swedish Edition'. NeuroLogica Blog. 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2020-10-25.

References[edit]

• Duck, J. (2006). 'Making the connection: Improving virtual team performance through behavioral assessment profiling and behavioral cues'. Developments in Business Simulation and Experiential Learning, 33, 358–9. Retrieved from https://absel-ojs-ttu.tdl.org/absel/index.php/absel/article/view/544