The Big Five Personality Test

from http://personality-testing.info

courtesy.ipip.ori.org

Villanueva, Cherry Ross A.

Introduction: The big five personality traits are the best accepted and most commonly used
model of personality in academic psychology. The big five come from the statistical study of
responses to personality items. Using a technique called factor analysis researchers can look at
the responses of people to hundreds of personality items and ask the question "what is the best
was to summarize an individual?". This has been done with many samples from all over the
world and the general result is that, while there seem to be unlimited personality variables, five
stand out from the pack in terms of explaining a lot of a persons answers to questions about their
personality: extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to
experience. The big-five are not associated with any particular test, a variety of measures have
been developed to measure them. This test uses the Big-Five Factor Markers from the
International Personality Item Pool, developed by Goldberg (1992).

Procedure: The test consists of fifty items that you must rate on how true they are about you on
a five point scale where 1=Disagree, 3=Neutral and 5=Agree. It takes most people 3-8 minutes to
complete.
Results summary

Your results from the IPIP Big Five Factor Markers are in the table below. The table contains a
raw score and also a percentile, what percent of other people who have taken this test that you
score higher than.

Trait descriptions

Factor I
Factor I was labelled as Extroversion by the developers of the IPIP-BFFM. Factor I is
sometimes given other names, such as Surgency or Positive Emotionality.
Individuals who score high on Factor I one are outgoing and social. Individuals who score low
tend to be shut ins.
Factor II
Factor II is labeled as Emotional Stability.
Factor II is often referred to by other names, such as Neuroticism or Negative Emotionality (in
these two cases interpretations are inverted, as Neruoticism and Negative Emotionality can be
thought of as the opposite of Emotional Stability).
Factor III
Factor III is labeled as Agreeableness.
A person high in agreeableness is friendly and optimistic. Low scorers are critical and
aggressive.
Factor IV
Factor IV is labeled as Conscientiousness. Individuals who score high on this factor are
careful and diligent. Low scorers are impulsive and disorganized.
Factor V
Factor V is labeled as Intellect/Imagination. This factor is also often called Openness to
Experience.

People who score low tend to be traditional and conventional.