Five Dimensional Personality Test.
5DPT
- What it measures
- Five dimensions derived from a biological-trait model: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Orderliness (~Conscientiousness), Accommodation (~Agreeableness/Psychoticism-reversed), and Absorption (a Openness/imagination-fantasy dimension)
- Length and format
- 100 (20 per dimension). True/False (dichotomous; also used with rating-scale variants) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Dutch original with an English version; used in research internationally
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- van Kampen, D. (2012). The 5-Dimensional Personality Test (5DPT): Relationships with two lexically based instruments and the validation of the absorption scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94(1), 92-101.
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