Big Five Inventory-2 Extra-Short Form.
BFI-2-XS
- What it measures
- Big Five domains only (no usable facets)
- Length and format
- 15 (3 per domain). 5-pt Likert (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Reported in 39 language versions in a single coordinated study ('Going global', 2024); among the most multilingually validated ultra-brief Big Five tools
- 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). JRP, 68, 69-81; Sorrenti et al. / OECD (2024), Going global: 39 language versions of the BFI-2-XS.
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