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Personality: broadband models

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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