Big Five Inventory-2.
BFI-2
- What it measures
- Big Five domains (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Negative Emotionality, Open-Mindedness) + 15 facets (3 per domain)
- Length and format
- 60 (15 facet scales of 4 items aggregating to 5 domain scales of 12). 5-pt Likert (disagree strongly - agree strongly) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Preliminary/validated translations in 40+ languages via coordinated international projects (BFI-2-XS reported in 39 languages); native validations incl. DE, ES, FR, IT, PT, ZH, JA, RU, AR, NO, plus BCMS work
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). The Next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(1), 117-143.
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