Big Five Inventory

Big Five Inventorz is a valid and reliable psychodiagnostic tool designed to measure five dimensions of human personality. For a multidimensional personality inventory, it is relatively brief (44 items in total) and consists of short sentences with relatively accessible vocabulary. Specifically, it measures the following dimensions human personality:

Length of filling

Filling out the entire questionnaire will take approximately 10 minutes.

Individualized feedback for the respondent

After completing the questionnaire, the respondent learns about himself how he stands in individual personality dimensions.

Keywords

the Big Five, personality, extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness

Scoring and interpretation

Extraversion: 1, 6R, 11, 16, 21R, 26, 31R, 36. Friendly: 2R, 7, 12R, 17, 22, 27R, 32, 37R, 42. Conscientiousness: 3, 8R, 13, 18R, 23R, 28, 33, 38, 43R. Neuroticism: 4, 9R, 14, 19, 24R, 29, 34R, 39. Openness: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35R, 40, 41R, 44. Before starting the evaluation, it is necessary to convert the scores for the reverse items (marked with R after the item number), which measure the opposite poles of the features. By adding up the points, we get a total score for each dimension. Higher scores indicate higher levels of the trait.

Response scale

A Likert-type scale is used for answers in the BFI method, where the proband expresses his agreement on a five-point scale (1 = completely disagree, 2 = rather disagree, 3 = neither agree nor agree, 4 = rather agree, 5 = completely agree).

References

Benet-Martínez, V., & John, O. P. (1998). Los Cinco Grandes across cultures and ethnic groups: Multitrait-multimethod analyses of the Big Five in Spanish and English. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(3), 729–750. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.729

Hřebíčková, M., Jelínek, M., Blatný, M., Brom, C., Burešová, I., Graf, S., Mejzlíková, T., Vazsonyi, A., & Zábrodská, K. (2016). Big Five Inventory: Základní psychometrické charakteristiky české verze BFI-44 a BFI-10. Československá psychologie, 60(6), 567-583. https://dostal.vyzkum-psychologie.cz/soubory/BFI2.pdf

John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big-Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (102–138). http://jenni.uchicago.edu/econ-psych-traits/John_Srivastava_1995_big5.pdf

John, O. P., Naumann, L. P., & Soto, C. J. (2008). Paradigm Shift to the Integrative Big-Five Trait Taxonomy: History, Measurement, and Conceptual Issues. In O. P. John, R. W. Robins, & L. A. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (114-158). https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/bigfive.htm