Big Five Marker Scales.
BFMS
- What it measures
- Big Five via 50 personality adjectives (10 per factor): Extraversion, Neuroticism/Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness
- Length and format
- 50 adjectives. 7-pt rating scale (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Italian original; cross-mapped to English/other Big Five markers; used in etic-emic cross-cultural lexical comparisons
- 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
- Perugini, M., & Di Blas, L. (2002). The Big Five Marker Scales (BFMS) and the Italian AB5C taxonomy. In Big Five Assessment (pp. 281-304). Hogrefe & Huber.
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