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Personality: broadband models

Five-Factor Personality Inventory.

FFPI

What it measures
Big Five: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Autonomy (a variant labeling of Openness); plus 40 bipolar facet blends (AB5C-style)
Length and format
100 (20 per factor). 5-point Likert (concrete behavioral statements); self- and other-rating (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Item pool built simultaneously in Dutch, English and German; also available in Brazilian-Portuguese, Chinese, Croatian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish
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 - author permission

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Reference
Hendriks, A. A. J., Hofstee, W. K. B., & De Raad, B. (1999). The Five-Factor Personality Inventory (FFPI). Personality and Individual Differences, 27(2), 307-325.

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