Big Five Inventory (original 44-item).
BFI / BFI-44
Big Five domains: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness (short phrase items)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- 44 (8-10 items per domain). 5-pt Likert (disagree strongly - agree strongly) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 30+ languages (incl. ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, NL, ZH, JA, RU, AR, TR, plus BCMS); among the most-translated Big Five measures pre-BFI-2
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- John, O. P., Naumann, L. P., & Soto, C. J. (2008). Paradigm shift to the integrative Big Five trait taxonomy. In Handbook of Personality (3rd ed.). https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/bfi.html
Measures you can take in personality: broadband models
These are measures in the same field, which you can take here. This entry does not describe them.
- Short Big Five Test (10 Items)PER-BF10
- Big Five Test with Facets (120 Items)PER-BF120
- Comprehensive Big Five Test (300 Items)PER-BF300
- Big Five Personality TestPER-BF50
- HEXACO Facets Test (100 Items)PER-HEX100
- Quick HEXACO Test (24 Items)PER-HEX24
- HEXACO Personality TestPER-HEX60
- Personal Integrity TestSKL-PI
More in Personality: broadband models
- BFI-10 - Big Five Inventory-10
10 items. open with attribution.
- HEXACO-PI-R - HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised
200 (full) or 100 (half-length); plus a 25th Altruism facet. open with attribution.
- HEXACO-100
100 items. open with attribution.
- HEXACO-60
60 (10 per factor). open with attribution.
- IPIP-50 / IPIP-BFFM - IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers (50-item)
50 (10 per domain). public-domain / open.
- IPIP-NEO (300-item)
300 (10 per facet). public-domain / open.
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