Big Five Inventory-SOEP (15-item).

BFI-S / BFI-15

What it measures

Big Five domains, 3 items per domain

Length and format

15 items. 7-pt Likert (SOEP version) or 5-pt depending on study (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

German original; English and other-language versions used in international panel surveys (e.g. via ISSP / cross-national SOEP-style studies)

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

Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., & Spinath, F. M. (2012). Short measurements of personality: Validity and reliability of the GSOEP BFI-S. Journal of Research in Personality, 46(3), 355-359.