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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.
| Very inaccurate | Moderately inaccurate | Neither accurate nor
inaccurate |
Moderately accurate | Very accurate | ||
| Tend to vote for conservative political candidates | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Have frequent mood swings | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Am not easily bothered by things | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Suspect hidden motives in others | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Enjoy hearing new ideas | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Believe in the importance of art | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Have a vivid imagination | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Am the life of the party | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Am skilled in handling social situations | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| I am always prepared | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Make plans and stick to them | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Dislike myself | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Respect others | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Insult people | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Would describe my experiences as somewhat dull | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Seldom feel blue | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Very inaccurate | Moderately inaccurate | Neither accurate nor
inaccurate |
Moderately accurate | Very accurate | ||
| Don’t like to draw attention to myself | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Carry out my plans | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Am not interested in abstract ideas | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Have a sharp tongue | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Make friends easily | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Tend to vote for liberal political candidates | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Know how to captivate people | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Believe that others have good intentions | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Am very pleased with myself | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Do just enough work to get by | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Find it difficult to get down to work | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Carry the conversation to a higher level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Panic easily | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Avoid philosophical discussions | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Accept people as they are | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Do not enjoy going to art museums | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Pay attention to details | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Keep in the background | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Feel comfortable with myself | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Waste my time | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Get back at others | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Very inaccurate | Moderately inaccurate | Neither accurate nor
inaccurate |
Moderately accurate | Very accurate | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Don’t talk a lot | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Am often down in the dumps | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Shirk my duties | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Do not like art | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Often feel blue | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Cut others to pieces | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Have a good word for everyone | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Don’t see things through | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Feel comfortable around people | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Make people feel at ease | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Rarely get irritated | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Have little to say | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
Description
Validity and Reliability
Interpretation
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
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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