Big Five Inventory-2 Short Form.
BFI-2-S
- What it measures
- Big Five domains + reduced-fidelity 15 facets
- Length and format
- 30 (2 per facet, 6 per domain). 5-pt Likert (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Follows BFI-2 translation program (many languages); subset items shared with BFI-2
- 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
- Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). Short and extra-short forms of the BFI-2: The BFI-2-S and BFI-2-XS. Journal of Research in Personality, 68, 69-81.
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