Big Five Questionnaire.
BFQ
- What it measures
- Big Five domains (Energy/Extraversion, Friendliness/Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness/Mental Openness), each with 2 facets (10 facets), plus a Lie/social-desirability scale
- Length and format
- 132 (BFQ); BFQ-2 = 134. 5-pt Likert (very false for me - very true for me) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated/adapted into 20+ languages (Spanish, German, English, plus others); used internationally, especially in Europe and Latin America
- 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
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- Caprara, G. V., Barbaranelli, C., Borgogni, L., & Perugini, M. (1993). The Big Five Questionnaire: A new questionnaire to assess the five factor model. Personality and Individual Differences, 15(3), 281-288.
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