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Personality: broadband models

Six Factor Personality Questionnaire.

6FPQ / SFPQ

What it measures
Six broad factors: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Independence (low Neuroticism), Openness to Experience, plus Conscientiousness split into Methodicalness and Industriousness; 18 facet scales
Length and format
108 (6 per facet). 5-point Likert (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated into several languages for research (e.g. used internationally in obesity/behavioral phenotyping and other studies)
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
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Jackson, D. N., Paunonen, S. V., & Tremblay, P. F. (2000). Six Factor Personality Questionnaire Manual. Port Huron, MI: SIGMA Assessment Systems.

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