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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

Open to Experience	Conscien-cious	Extraversion	Agreeable- ness	Neuroticism
5		3		1		2		4
10		8		6		7		9
15		13		11		12		14
20		18		16		17		19
25		23		21		22		24
30		28		26		27		29
35		33		31		32		34
40		38		36		37		39
41		43				42
44
Total		Total		Total		Total		Total
/10		/9		/8		/9		/8
Mean		Mean		Mean		Mean		Mean

Summary Personality Scores

Concept	Brief Description	Your Score	Other Person’s Score
Openness to Experience	broad-minded, curious, creative, untraditional, imaginative
Conscientiousness	persevering, self-disciplined, reliable, punctual, efficient
Extraversion	active, person-oriented, fun loving, affectionate, sociable, optimistic
Agreeableness	trusting, helpful, kindhearted, good-natured, straightforward
Neuroticism (Negative emotionality)	tense, emotional, insecure, nervous, worrying

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.