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Personality: broadband models

Ten-Item Personality Inventory.

TIPI

What it measures
Big Five domains (each from one positively- and one negatively-keyed two-adjective item)
Length and format
10 (2 per domain). 7-pt Likert ([item text withheld] two-descriptor items) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Translated/validated in 25+ languages (ES, CA, ZH, NL, SV, IT/Italian revised, ID-Indonesian, and many more); one of the most-translated ultra-brief measures
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
Gosling, S. D., Rentfrow, P. J., & Swann, W. B. (2003). A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(6), 504-528.

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