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Personality Questionnaire Coding
Shaded questions need to be reverse coded (so that high scores on all questions reflect higher levels of the personality dimension)
1 = 5
2 = 4
3 = 3
4 = 2
5 = 1
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Open to Experience
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Conscien-cious |
Extraversion |
Agreeable- ness |
Neuroticism |
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5 |
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3 |
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1 |
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2 |
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4 |
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10 |
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8 |
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6 |
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7 |
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9 |
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15 |
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13 |
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11 |
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12 |
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14 |
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20 |
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18 |
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16 |
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17 |
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19 |
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25 |
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23 |
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21 |
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22 |
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24 |
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30 |
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28 |
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26 |
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27 |
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29 |
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35 |
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33 |
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31 |
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32 |
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34 |
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40 |
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38 |
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36 |
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37 |
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39 |
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41 |
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43 |
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42 |
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44 |
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Total |
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Total |
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Total |
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Total |
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Total |
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/10 |
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/9 |
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/8 |
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/8 |
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Mean |
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Mean |
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Mean |
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Mean |
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Mean |
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Summary Personality Scores
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Concept
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Brief Description
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Your Score |
Other Person’s Score |
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Openness to Experience
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broad-minded, curious, creative, untraditional, imaginative
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Conscientiousness
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persevering, self-disciplined, reliable, punctual, efficient
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Extraversion
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active, person-oriented, fun loving, affectionate, sociable, optimistic
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Agreeableness
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trusting, helpful, kindhearted, good-natured, straightforward
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Neuroticism (Negative emotionality)
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tense, emotional, insecure, nervous, worrying
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Scores are averaged over items
Scale is 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree
REFERENCE INFORMATION
The BFI should be cited with the original and a more accessible, recent reference:
John, O. P., Donahue, E. M., & Kentle, R. L. (1991). The Big Five Inventory--Versions 4a and 54. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Personality and Social Research.
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 (pp. 114-158). New York, NY: Guilford Press.