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Personality: broadband models

Freiburg Personality Inventory-Revised.

FPI-R

What it measures
Ten primary scales (Life Satisfaction, Social Orientation, Achievement Orientation, Inhibitedness, Excitability/Aggressiveness, Strain, Somatic Complaints, Health Concerns, Frankness/Openness, Impulsiveness) + 2 Eysenckian secondary scales (Extraversion, Emotionality/Neuroticism)
Length and format
138 items. Agree/Disagree (dichotomous) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Primarily German; adaptations/translations exist for research (e.g. into other European languages) though it is mainly a German-language instrument
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
Fahrenberg, J., Hampel, R., & Selg, H. (2020). Das Freiburger Persoenlichkeitsinventar FPI-R (9th ed.). Goettingen: Hogrefe.

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