Big Five Inventory (original 44-item).
BFI / BFI-44
- What it measures
- Big Five domains: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness (short phrase items)
- Length and format
- 44 (8-10 items per domain). 5-pt Likert (disagree strongly - agree strongly) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 30+ languages (incl. ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, NL, ZH, JA, RU, AR, TR, plus BCMS); among the most-translated Big Five measures pre-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
- John, O. P., Naumann, L. P., & Soto, C. J. (2008). Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy. In Handbook of Personality (3rd ed.). https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/bfi.html
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