NEO Personality Inventory-3.
NEO-PI-3
- What it measures
- Five-Factor Model with 30 facets (same structure as NEO-PI-R); 37 items reworded for readability
- Length and format
- 240 items. 5-pt Likert (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 10+ Hogrefe-published European editions plus many research translations; standardized e.g. in Greece, UK; broadly adapted internationally (NEO-FFI-3 also in Arabic etc.)
- Normative data
- We hold norms for a related instrument, not for this one.
- Licence
- copyrighted - commercial
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- Reference
- McCrae, R. R., Costa, P. T., & Martin, T. A. (2005). The NEO-PI-3: A more readable Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 84(3), 261-270.
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