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Where is data on percentiles of the Big Five Inventory?
I have raw scores (e.g., sums of the relevant question scores for each measure) from the Big Five Inventory (BFI). I would like to convert these into percentiles for interpretation. Where are the data ...
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10-BFI test score compiling
I am a physicist and I am doing a survey about musical genre preferences and correlation with a field of study.
I want to interpret the results from this test
I don't know how to interpret the legend,...
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Connections between different theories of personality
There are a several theories on personality: the Big Five personality traits, Watson en Clark's extraversion en neuroticism, Grey's Behavioural Inhibition & Behavioural Activation (BIS/BAS), ...
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Is personality dominance a hypothetical construct or is it based in neurobiology?
There are several personality tests which have dominance as trait or type as result.
In addition to this question: How to measure dominance and submissiveness?
How are dominant types constructed in ...
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Making a risk assessment type scale using existing scales
I am trying to make a risk assessment type scale that measures the likelihood/risk of someone experiencing a psychological disorder in a setting. There are about 10 factors (e.g., gender, sleep ...
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How to measure dominance and submissiveness?
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Interpersonal dimensions of personality (Sullivan, 1953) have been described in a circular model, the interpersonal circumplex, since Leary (1957). The two dimensions that define this ...
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Does sadism correlate with narcissism?
I mean in the general population. I'm aware of proposals/constructs like malignant narcissism but the empirical evidence (in the Wikipedia page at least) is mostly case-based (serial killers and so ...
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Psychometric information on IPIP representation of NEO facets
The IPIP (International Personality Item Pool) website provides a copy of the IPIP representation of the NEO 30 facet form.
It also provides some information comparing IPIP NEO with official NEO.
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Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales
I wonder if anybody could give some details about Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales. I tried to access 'The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales: Normative Data and Implications' by ...
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Evidence for differences in resilience between generations
There is a lot of talk of younger generations being "softer" but is there any evidence for differences in resilience or hardiness between generations?
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What is the test-retest correlation for HEXACO personality?
I am wanting to get estimates of the test-retest correlation for the six HEXACO domains. I'm curious to obtain estimates of test-retest correlation over various time frames (e.g., 1 month, 1 years, 2 ...
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What are the correlations between the facets of honesty-humility in HEXACO personality and the Dark Triad?
I was just reading some of the items in the HEXACO measure of personality. It seems to me that the "honesty-humility" factor is actually more naturally expressed in the opposite way. I.e., about three ...
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Why are the Big Five factors of personality correlated?
One of main characteristics of Five Factor Model is that factors are not orthogonal as in some other personality models.
Why it is tolerated that those factors are not independent?
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What is the notation about group differences in terms standard deviations?
I am just getting into watching psych lectures and things online and am taking notes but I have been wondering what the proper/standard way of writing in note form about standard deviations is.
For ...
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Finding percentile ranks for questionnaires and psychometric tests
I am using a Levenson's Self-Report Psychopathy Scale to divide participants into two groups (high v low scores). I have selected participants based on them scoring in the top or bottom 25% of ...
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Is it possible to quantify 'pettiness' in a personality?
Petty is a word that is pretty clearly defined:
Not very important or serious
Relating to things that are not very important or serious
I'm interested in measuring the degree that someone is likely ...
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Why don't the Big 5 personality traits have more neutral names?
Lots of different areas of study appropriate common-language terms as jargon words with a specific meaning in the context of that particular field, but the names of the Big 5 personality traits have ...
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Can frissons provide an accurate metric to gauge emotional intelligence?
This relates to my other post Frissons on demand. As is stated in the abstract of the cited source below (which discusses voluntarily controlled piloerection), the ability correlates with personality ...
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Do the Jungian Cognitive Functions/ Processes really exist?
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Many of us must have come across personality theories like MBTI which use part of Carl Jung's concepts to make a theoretical system used to divide people into types. For example, MBTI says ...
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Free-to-use parenting style questionnaire
I'm working on a master's thesis in UX design that I might want to turn into a commercial project later on. The subject matter is use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in parenting.
For the research ...
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Help to find the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ)
I'm looking for the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) as per ICD-11 proposals, but I can not find it. It was previously called the
ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ICD-TQ). Can someone help me?
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Canonical Literature for "Big 5" Personality Theory
I'm searching for a good reference on "Big 5" personality theory that explains the topic in detail beyond the level of a website. I am hoping to get a pointer to some of the "canonical" literature--i....
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What are the correlation between the Big 5 (OCEAN) dimensions of personality?
I'm looking for quantitative research on the correlation between the five dimensions in OCEAN psychometric models. Would appreciate any references.
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What, if any, objective tests were designed for the assessment of altruism?
In an article by Santacreu et al. (2006) there is a mention of altruism assessment within the framework of the Character Education Inquiry (CEI):
If we return to the first half of the last century, ...
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Advancement to Likert Scale
Likert Scale has been widely in use for more than 80 years (it was published in 1932). However, the limitations of it are well-known:
The space between each choice is possibly not equidistant.
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Is the Myer Briggs Type indicator (MBTI) a reasonable scientific theory?
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MBTI stands for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It's a theory that suggests that people can be divided into 16 types, based on the way they percieve and analyse information (whether they make ...
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How to understand what a low score or high score is for a particular measure?
I am trying to use a survey tool to recommend a particular decision. In my case, I am using the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; link here: https://gosling.psy.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
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Are there any personality theories that use the scientific method?
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I have come across a number of personality theories. There are even disciplines of personality theories, dividing these theories according to the assumptions they are based upon. The most ...
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What projective tests are available for a child and family assessment?
I’m thinking about introducing to my practice some new tests for family relationship evaluation. There are not so many projective tests in this matter. I'm particularly interested in Family Relation ...
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What is the support for a global personality factor?
The Big 5 is a popular framework for describing major factors of individual differences in personality. More recently, I've been hearing people talking about the utility of conceptualising personality ...
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Do people low on agreeableness swear more?
Reading through a scientific report on Big 5 characteristics in everyday life, I found a -.28 correlation for Agreaableness and swearing.
http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~mehl/eReprints/EARlensmodelJPSP....
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Taking into account reliability of Raven's Matrices and Self Monitoring tests
I've results of two tests administered to university students:
the 18-item true-false version of the Self-Monitoring Scale (Snyder & Gangestad, 1986);
the Raven Progressive Matrices Test (John &...
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Where can I find decent descriptions for each Big5 facet?
I need some decent explanations/descriptions for each of the 30 Big5 facets, like a1, a2, a3 etc etc.
I have been googling around for it, but all I have found are very short descriptions that vary too ...
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What is the neurobiological difference between Jungian Judging and Perceiving individual?
Jungian or Myers Briggs type indicator reserves the last letter of a 4 letter archetype to stand for Judging or Perceiving.
Part of being a Judging type is punctuality - being on time, keeping ...
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What is understood about interactions between personality types or traits?
There are several psychological tests based on Jungian typology (e.g., MBTI, Insights & DISC) which extrapolate findings about personality into how those types interact (e.g., interaction styles). ...
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Do the motivations and fears behind Enneagram have any scientific reasoning?
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The Enneagram personality typing system defines set of motivations and basic fears for its nine personality types among people.
The system seems to be aimed at personal development of a ...
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Are there any reliable type descriptions for Big Five personality traits?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) model of personality provides a list of 16 personality types with accompanying descriptions, like this. Are there analogous types for the Big Five model of ...
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How do personality tests work that require you to choose one of two statement that applies most to you?
There are different kinds of psychometric tests, I think the numerical and verbal ones are fair enough, I can see their usefulness. However, I cannot understand how the 'soft' psychometric tests work ...
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Why do some researcher still prefer Myers-Briggs Type Indicator over Five-Factor model? [closed]
Big Five or Five-Factor model has 32 traits while Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has only 16. But inspite of this, there are still people who use MBTI over Big Five.
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What is the best short (i.e., roughly 20 item) measure of Big Five personality?
What is the best short set of 20 questions that can give meaningful information about a person's big five personality? In case that's not possible with 20 questions, what's the minimum and where do I ...
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What free scientific measures of Big 5 personality are available?
I'm aware of a few freely available scientific measures of Big 5 personality.
IPIP:
Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI)
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What other free scientific Big 5 personality tests are ...
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Licensing when using the NEO-FFI instrument
I would like to use the NEO-FFI instrument to measure the Big 5 psychological traits. Is a license needed? Are there any open, free, or public domain Big 5 tests that can be used for no (or minimal)...
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Do personality survey responses correlate to the success or failure of minimum wage employees?
I recently watched a friend fill out a personality survey for a minimum wage job. These surveys generally have a few dozen to as many as a couple hundred statements with which the applicant must agree,...
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Psychometric scale with items in sets where responses imply a rank order of items
My question is related to psychometry. One survey is measured in this way:
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