international personality item pool five factor model 50 ipip big5

International Personality Item Pool – Five Factor Model – 50 (IPIP-Big5)

Instructions:

The following pages contain phrases describing people’s behaviors. Please use the rating scale next to each phrase to describe how accurately each statement describes you.

Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age.

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 Tend to vote for conservative political candidates54321
Have frequent mood swings12345
Am not easily bothered by things54321
Suspect hidden motives in others54321
Enjoy hearing new ideas12345
Believe in the importance of art12345
Have a vivid imagination12345
Am the life of the party12345
Am skilled in handling social situations12345
I am always prepared12345
Make plans and stick to them12345
Dislike myself12345
Respect others12345
Insult people54321
Would describe my experiences as somewhat dull54321
Seldom feel blue54321
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 Don’t like to draw attention to myself54321
Carry out my plans12345
Am not interested in abstract ideas54321
Have a sharp tongue54321
Make friends easily12345
Tend to vote for liberal political candidates12345
Know how to captivate people12345
Believe that others have good intentions12345
Am very pleased with myself54321
Do just enough work to get by54321
Find it difficult to get down to work54321
Carry the conversation to a higher level12345
Panic easily12345
Avoid philosophical discussions54321
Accept people as they are12345
Do not enjoy going to art museums54321
Pay attention to details12345
Keep in the background54321
Feel comfortable with myself54321
Waste my time54321
Get back at others54321
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Don’t talk a lot54321
Am often down in the dumps12345
Shirk my duties54321
Do not like art54321
Often feel blue12345
Cut others to pieces54321
Have a good word for everyone12345
Don’t see things through54321
Feel comfortable around people12345
Make people feel at ease12345
Rarely get irritated54321
Have little to say54321

Description

The IPIP-Big5 is a 50 item self-report personality test designed to measure the Big Five personality traits, as expressed in Costa and McCrae’s (1992) revised NEO personality inventory (NEO-PI-R). This assessment is appropriate for people between the age of 16 and 81, with age and gender specific norms provided. The tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others. – Conscientiousness / Intellect – The tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement. – Emotional Stability – This is the reverse of the “neuroticism” subscale found on the NEO-PI-R. Low scores on the Emotional Stability scale indicate the tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability. – Openness – Reflects the degree of intellectual curiosity, creativity and a preference for novelty and variety.

Validity and Reliability

The IPIP-Big5 was developed by Goldberg (1999) using the International Personality Item Pool. It has been shown to correlate highly with the corresponding NEO-PI-R domain scores, with correlations that range from .85 to .92 when corrected for unreliability (International Personality Item Pool, 2001). The IPIP-5-50 scales also outperformed the NEO-PI-R versions of the same constructs as predictors of a number of clusters of self-reported behavioral acts. Buchanan, Johnson and Goldberg (2005) evaluated the validity with 2,448 participants. Factor analysis supported the construct formation, and correlated significantly with behavioral criteria. Lamers et al (2012) conducted another validation study with a sample of 1161 Dutch participants between the ages of 18 and 88, stratified for demographic variables. Gow et al. (2005) also conducted a validation study with 906 participants in Scotland and provide gender and age related norms.

Interpretation

Results consist of five scores, one for each of the personality domains, scored from 10 to 50. Scores are also represented as percentiles for comparison to age and gender specific non-clinical sample (Gow et al. 2005). Low scores on Emotional Stability has been shown to correlate with psychopathology while higher extraversion and agreeableness is correlated with psychological well-being (Lamers et al 2012).

Developer

Goldberg, L. R. (1999a). A broad-bandwidth, public-domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In I. Mervielde, I. Deary, F. De Fruyt, & F. Ostendorf (Eds.), Personality psychology in Europe, Vol. 7 (pp. 7-28).

Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg University Press. http://ipip.ori.org/newBroadbandText.htm

Number Of Questions

50

References

Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public-domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In I. Mervielde, I. Deary, F. De Fruyt, & F. Ostendorf (Eds.), Personality psychology in Europe, Vol. 7 (pp. 7-28).

Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg University Press. http://ipip.ori.org/newBroadbandText.htm Buchanan, T., Johnson, J. A., & Goldberg, L. R. (2005). Implementing a five-factor personality inventory for use on the internet. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 21, 115-127.

Gow, A. J., Whiteman, M. C., Pattie, A., & Deary, I. J. (2005). Goldberg’s ‘IPIP’Big-Five factor markers: Internal consistency and concurrent validation in Scotland. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(2), 317-329.

Lamers, Sanne M.A. and Westerhof, Gerben J. and Kovács, Viktòria and Bohlmeijer, Ernst T. (2012) Differential relationships in the association of the Big Five personality traits with positive mental health and psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 46 (5). 517 – 52

International Personality Item Pool: A Scientific Collaboratory for the Development of Advanced Measures of Personality Traits and Other Individual Differences (http://ipip.ori.org/). Internet Web Site.

Developer Reference:

Goldberg, L. R. (1999a). A broad-bandwidth, public-domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In I. Mervielde, I. Deary, F. De Fruyt, & F. Ostendorf (Eds.), Personality psychology in Europe, Vol. 7 (pp. 7-28). Tilburg, The Netherlands: Tilburg University Press. http://ipip.ori.org/newBroadbandText.htm

Cite this article

mohammad looti (2026). International Personality Item Pool – Five Factor Model – 50 (IPIP-Big5). PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/international-personality-item-pool-five-factor-model-50-ipip-big5/

mohammad looti. "International Personality Item Pool – Five Factor Model – 50 (IPIP-Big5)." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 2 Apr. 2026, https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/international-personality-item-pool-five-factor-model-50-ipip-big5/.

mohammad looti. "International Personality Item Pool – Five Factor Model – 50 (IPIP-Big5)." PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES, 2026. https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/international-personality-item-pool-five-factor-model-50-ipip-big5/.

mohammad looti (2026) 'International Personality Item Pool – Five Factor Model – 50 (IPIP-Big5)', PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES. Available at: https://scales.arabpsychology.com/s/international-personality-item-pool-five-factor-model-50-ipip-big5/.

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