Self-check

Big Five personality test

Twenty short statements, about 3 minutes. They come from the Mini-IPIP, a published and tested short version of a free Big Five questionnaire. You get a score for each of the five traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

These are the twenty statements of the Mini-IPIP, published in 2006 by M. Brent Donnellan, Frederick Oswald, Brendan Baird and Richard Lucas. It shortens a 50-item questionnaire from Lewis Goldberg's International Personality Item Pool, which is in the public domain. Across their five studies, its scores held steady over weeks and months about as well as the longer version's. They also related to other measures much as longer Big Five tests do. Four statements per trait is still few, so read a score as rough. We show each score on a scale from 0 to 10. Five is the middle of the answer scale. It doesn't mark the average person. A trait score describes how you answered, and no score is better than another.

Extraversion: How much you seek out people, talk and stimulation.
Agreeableness: How much you attend to other people's feelings and needs.
Conscientiousness: How organized and orderly you are.
Neuroticism: How often and how strongly you feel upset, anxious or low.
Openness: Imagination and interest in ideas. The Mini-IPIP calls this scale intellect or imagination.

Big Five (Five-Factor Model)

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