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Personality: broadband models

Big Five Inventory-10.

BFI-10

What it measures
Big Five domains only, 2 items per domain (one keyed each direction)
Length and format
10 items. 5-pt Likert (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
English + German original pair; subsequently translated/validated in many languages (e.g. RU, ZH and others) and used in ISSP-type surveys
Normative data
We hold norms for a related instrument, not for this one.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Rammstedt, B., & John, O. P. (2007). Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the BFI. Journal of Research in Personality, 41(1), 203-212.

A related assessment we deliver

Our published mapping does not resolve which of two closely related instruments this assessment deploys, so we do not claim it is built on this one. The link is offered as the nearest measure we deliver, and no normative data is attributed to this instrument on that basis.