AB5C-IPIP (Abridged Big Five Circumplex facet scales).
AB5C-IPIP
- What it measures
- The Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumplex: 45 facet scales formed by the blends of pairs of the Big Five factors (each facet has a primary and a secondary factor), operationalized with public-domain IPIP items
- Length and format
- 485 (the full IPIP AB5C set; ~9-11 items per facet across 45 facets). 5-pt Likert (very inaccurate - very accurate) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- English original; public-domain items permit translation; used internationally in structure research
- 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
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Hofstee, W. K. B., de Raad, B., & Goldberg, L. R. (1992). Integration of the Big Five and circumplex approaches to trait structure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63(1), 146-163; IPIP rendering at https://ipip.ori.org.
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