Personality: broadband models.
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- AB5C-IPIP (Abridged Big Five Circumplex facet scales)
The Abridged Big Five-Dimensional Circumplex: 45 facet scales formed by the blends of pairs of the Big Five factors (each facet has a primary and a secondary factor), operationalized with public-domain IPIP items
Open485 (the full IPIP AB5C set; ~9-11 items per facet across 45 facets) - ACL - Adjective Check List
Broadband personality description via 300 trait adjectives - 37 scales incl. the 15 Murray needs, topical scales, transactional-analysis ego states, and the Big Five (via later scoring)
Restricted300 adjectives - BESSI - Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory
Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) SKILLS, framed as learnable capacities distinct from personality traits. 5 skill domains (Self-Management, Social Engagement, Cooperation, Emotional Resilience, Innovation) over 32 skill facets, of which 4 are interstitial (half weight on two domains) and 3 are compound (Adaptability, Capacity for Independence, Self-Reflection Skill; in no domain score).
Attribution192 (32 facet scales of 6 items); observer-report form identical in content - BESSI-20 - Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory, 20-item Short Form
The 5 SEB skill domains only, at minimum length (4 items per domain); no facet scores
Attribution20 (5 domain scales of 4 items) - BESSI-45 - Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory, 45-item Short Form
The 5 SEB skill domains only (Self-Management, Social Engagement, Cooperation, Emotional Resilience, Innovation); no facet scores
Attribution45 (5 domain scales of 9 items) - BESSI-96 - Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory, 96-item Short Form
Same 5 SEB skill domains and 32 skill facets as the BESSI-192, at reduced fidelity (3 items per facet)
Attribution96 (32 facet scales of 3 items) - BFAS - Big Five Aspect Scales
Big Five domains plus 10 'aspects' (two per domain, an intermediate level between domains and facets) e.g. Enthusiasm/Assertiveness, Compassion/Politeness, Industriousness/Orderliness, Volatility/Withdrawal, Intellect/Openness
Attribution100 (10 per aspect) - BFI / BFI-44 - Big Five Inventory (original 44-item)
Big Five domains: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness (short phrase items)
Attribution44 (8-10 items per domain) - BFI-10 - Big Five Inventory-10Length: 10 to 24
Big Five domains only, 2 items per domain (one keyed each direction)
Attribution10 items - BFI-2 - Big Five Inventory-2
Big Five domains (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Negative Emotionality, Open-Mindedness) + 15 facets (3 per domain)
Attribution60 (15 facet scales of 4 items aggregating to 5 domain scales of 12) - BFI-2-XS - Big Five Inventory-2 Extra-Short Form
Big Five domains only (no usable facets)
Attribution15 (3 per domain) - BFI-2-S - Big Five Inventory-2 Short Form
Big Five domains + reduced-fidelity 15 facets
Attribution30 (2 per facet, 6 per domain) - BFI-S / BFI-15 - Big Five Inventory-SOEP (15-item)Length: 10 to 24
Big Five domains, 3 items per domain
Attribution15 items - BFMS - Big Five Marker Scales
Big Five via 50 personality adjectives (10 per factor): Extraversion, Neuroticism/Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness
Attribution50 adjectives - BFQ - Big Five Questionnaire
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
Restricted132 (BFQ); BFQ-2 = 134 - BFQ-C - Big Five Questionnaire for Children
Big Five personality in children/adolescents - Energy/Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Instability, Intellect/Openness
Restricted65 (13 per factor) - BIP - Bochum Inventory of Personality and Competencies
Work-related personality and competencies - occupational orientation (achievement, power, leadership motivation), work behaviour (conscientiousness, flexibility, action orientation), social competencies, and psychological constitution
Restricted210 (14 dimensions); BIP-6F short form - CAQ - California Adult Q-Set
Comprehensive personality description via a forced-choice Q-sort of 100 personality-descriptive statements; yields whole-person profiles and prototypes (e.g. ego-resiliency, ego-control)
Attribution100 Q-sort items (forced 9-category distribution) - CPI - California Psychological Inventory
Normal-range 'folk-concept' personality scales (e.g. Dominance, Sociability, Responsibility, Socialization, Self-control, Tolerance, Achievement, Flexibility, Empathy) plus 3 structural vector scales and higher-order types
RestrictedCPI 434 (434 items, ~18-20 folk scales); CPI 260 (260 items) - CPS - Comrey Personality ScalesLength: Over 60
Eight personality factors: Trust vs Defensiveness, Orderliness vs Lack of Compulsion, Social Conformity vs Rebelliousness, Activity vs Lack of Energy, Emotional Stability vs Neuroticism, Extraversion vs Introversion, Mental Toughness vs Sensitivity, Empathy vs Egocentrism (+ validity scales)
Restricted180 items - DISC Assessment (DiSC)
Four behavioral styles: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness (originally Marston's emotions model; many publisher-specific variants and 8-region circumplex extensions)
MixedVaries by publisher: DiSC Classic = 28 forced-choice items; Everything DiSC = ~80 items (adaptive) - EPI - Eysenck Personality Inventory
Two dimensions: Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism-Stability, plus a Lie scale (predecessor of the EPQ; no Psychoticism)
Restricted57 (24 E, 24 N, 9 Lie) - EPP - Eysenck Personality Profiler
Hierarchical Eysenckian model: 3 super-traits (E, N, P) each with ~7 primary subtraits/facets (21 facet scales)
RestrictedVaries by version: ~440 (20 items/subscale) down to abbreviated 6- or 12-item-per-subscale forms - EPQ-R - Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised
Three Eysenckian dimensions: Psychoticism (P), Extraversion (E), Neuroticism (N), plus a Lie/social-desirability (L) scale (the 'PEN' model)
Restricted100 (commonly cited as ~90-100 yes/no items) - EPQR-S - Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Scale
Eysenckian P, E, N + Lie scale (short form of the EPQ-R)
Restricted48 (12 per scale: E, N, P, L) - 15FQ+ - Fifteen Factor Questionnaire Plus
16 Cattellian primary factors (incl. Factor B intelligence) reducible to 5 global factors (Extraversion, Anxiety, Tough-Mindedness, Independence, Self-Control) + response-style scales
Restricted~200 (commonly cited around 200 items) - 5DPT - Five Dimensional Personality Test
Five dimensions derived from a biological-trait model: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Orderliness (~Conscientiousness), Accommodation (~Agreeableness/Psychoticism-reversed), and Absorption (a Openness/imagination-fantasy dimension)
Attribution100 (20 per dimension) - FFPI - Five-Factor Personality Inventory
Big Five: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Autonomy (a variant labeling of Openness); plus 40 bipolar facet blends (AB5C-style)
Restricted100 (20 per factor) - FPI-R - Freiburg Personality Inventory-RevisedLength: Over 60
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)
Restricted138 items - TDA / Goldberg 100 markers - Goldberg Big-Five Adjective Markers (Trait Descriptive Adjectives)
Big Five via 100 unipolar adjective markers (also bipolar marker sets); the lexical reference markers for the OCEAN factors
Open100 unipolar markers (also a 50-bipolar set) - GPP-I - Gordon Personal Profile-Inventory
Eight normal-personality traits: Ascendancy, Responsibility, Emotional Stability, Sociability (Self-Esteem = sum of these four), Cautiousness, Original Thinking, Personal Relations, Vigor
Restricted38 forced-choice tetrad blocks (each with most/least like me) - GZTS - Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey
Ten temperament traits: General Activity, Restraint, Ascendance, Sociability, Emotional Stability, Objectivity, Friendliness, Thoughtfulness, Personal Relations, Masculinity
Restricted300 (30 per trait) - HEXACO-PI-R - HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised
Six factors: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience; 24 facets (4 per factor) + an Interstitial Altruism facet
Attribution200 (full) or 100 (half-length); plus a 25th Altruism facet - HEXACO-100Length: Over 60
Six HEXACO factors + 24 facets + Altruism (half-length of the HEXACO-PI-R)
Attribution100 items - HEXACO-60
Six HEXACO factors (domain-level; facets thinly represented), 10 items per factor
Attribution60 (10 per factor) - HiPIC - Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children
Big Five personality in children/adolescents - Extraversion, Benevolence, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism (emotional stability), Imagination; 18 lower-order facets
Restricted144 (18 facets); HiPIC-30 short form - HPI - Hogan Personality InventoryLength: Over 60
Seven primary scales grounded in socioanalytic theory and the FFM: Adjustment, Ambition, Sociability, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Prudence, Inquisitive, Learning Approach; 42 Homogeneous Item Composites + 6 occupational scales
Restricted206 items - IAS - Interpersonal Adjective Scales
Interpersonal traits arranged on the interpersonal circumplex - eight octants around Dominance (agency) and Nurturance (communion)
Restricted64 (IAS-R/IAS); original IAS 128 - IPIP-100 - IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers (100-item)
Big Five domains (E, A, C, Emotional Stability, Intellect/Imagination); domain-level, higher precision than IPIP-50
Open100 (20 per domain) - IPIP-50 / IPIP-BFFM - IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers (50-item)
Big Five domains (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Intellect/Imagination); domain-level only
Open50 (10 per domain) - IPIP-NEO (300-item)
Five-Factor Model: 5 domains + 30 facets (public-domain proxy for the NEO-PI-R facet structure)
Open300 (10 per facet) - IPIP-NEO-120
Five-Factor Model: 5 domains + 30 facets (public-domain)
Open120 (4 per facet) - JPI-R - Jackson Personality Inventory-Revised
15 normal-personality content scales (e.g. Complexity, Breadth of Interest, Empathy, Anxiety, Cooperativeness, Sociability, Social Confidence, Energy Level, Responsibility, Risk Taking, Tolerance, Innovation, Organization) grouped into 5 clusters (Analytical, Emotional, Extroverted, Opportunistic, Dependable)
Restricted300 (20 per scale) - KTS / KTS-II - Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Four temperaments (Artisan/SP, Guardian/SJ, Rational/NT, Idealist/NF) mapping to the same 16 types as the MBTI
Restricted70 (KTS-II) forced-choice items - M5-120 / M5-50 (IPIP Five-Factor measures)
Five-Factor Model: 5 domains + 25 facets (M5-120, parallel to the AB5C/NEO facet structure) or 5 domains only (M5-50); public-domain IPIP items
OpenM5-120 (120 items, 25 facets) and M5-50 (50 items, 5 domains) - Mini-IPIP
Big Five domains only (4 items per domain), drawn from the 50-item IPIP markers
Open20 (4 per domain) - MPQ - Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire
11 primary trait scales (e.g. Wellbeing, Social Potency, Achievement, Social Closeness, Stress Reaction, Alienation, Aggression, Control, Harm Avoidance, Traditionalism, Absorption) loading on 3 higher-order factors: Positive Emotionality, Negative Emotionality, Constraint
Restricted276 (full); brief form MPQ-BF = 155 items - MBTI - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Four Jungian preference dichotomies - Extraversion/Introversion (E/I), Sensing/Intuition (S/N), Thinking/Feeling (T/F), Judging/Perceiving (J/P) - yielding 16 types; Step II adds 20 facets
RestrictedForm M = 93 items; Form Q (Step II) = 144 items - NEO-FFI - NEO Five-Factor Inventory
Five-Factor Model domains only (N, E, O, A, C); no facet scores
Restricted60 (12 per domain) - NEO-FFI-3 - NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3
Five-Factor Model domains only (N, E, O, A, C), readability-improved
Restricted60 (12 per domain) - NEO-PI-3 - NEO Personality Inventory-3Length: Over 60
Five-Factor Model with 30 facets (same structure as NEO-PI-R); 37 items reworded for readability
Restricted240 items - OPQ32 - Occupational Personality Questionnaire 32
32 work-relevant personality dimensions grouped into 3 domains (Relationships with People, Thinking Style, Feelings & Emotions), reportable against ~9 competency clusters
RestrictedOPQ32n ~104 statements (Likert); OPQ32r forced-choice blocks - PAPI - Personality and Preference Inventory
Work-relevant needs and behavioral roles (e.g. need to achieve, need to control, leadership, work pace, attention to detail, sociability) - ~20+ dimensions across a needs-and-roles framework
RestrictedPAPI-N (normative) ~126 items; PAPI-I (ipsative) ~90 forced-choice pairs - PRF - Personality Research Form
Up to 20 normal-personality dimensions based on Murray's needs (e.g. Achievement, Affiliation, Dominance, Autonomy, Nurturance, Order, Play, Understanding) + Infrequency and Desirability validity scales
RestrictedForm E = 352 (16 per scale x 22 scales); Forms A/B/AA/BB/G vary (16-20 items/scale) - NEO-PI-R - Revised NEO Personality Inventory
Five-Factor Model: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, each with 6 facets (30 facets total)
Restricted240 (plus 3 validity items on the answer sheet); also an observer-rated Form R - SPI - SAPA Personality Inventory
A hierarchical personality measure spanning 5 factors and 27 lower-order trait scales (derived empirically from the SAPA project item pool), with a 135-item and a 27-item form
OpenSPI-135 (135 items, 27 scales) and SPI-27 (27 items, 5 factors) - Mini-Markers - Saucier Mini-Markers
Big Five via 40 trait adjectives (8 per factor): Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness/Intellect
Attribution40 adjectives - 6FPQ / SFPQ - Six Factor Personality Questionnaire
Six broad factors: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Independence (low Neuroticism), Openness to Experience, plus Conscientiousness split into Methodicalness and Industriousness; 18 facet scales
Restricted108 (6 per facet) - 16PF (5th ed.) - Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (5th Edition)Length: Over 60
16 primary personality factors (Warmth, Reasoning, Emotional Stability, Dominance, Liveliness, Rule-Consciousness, Social Boldness, Sensitivity, Vigilance, Abstractedness, Privateness, Apprehension, Openness to Change, Self-Reliance, Perfectionism, Tension) + 5 global factors (Extraversion, Anxiety, Tough-Mindedness, Independence, Self-Control)
Restricted185 items - TCI-R - Temperament and Character Inventory-RevisedLength: Over 60
Cloninger's psychobiological model: 4 temperament dimensions (Novelty Seeking, Harm Avoidance, Reward Dependence, Persistence) + 3 character dimensions (Self-Directedness, Cooperativeness, Self-Transcendence), with 29 subscales
Restricted240 items