Scale Overview & Construct
A brief public-domain 56-item measure of the five broad Big Five personality domains, with no facet breakdown.
Purpose & Measurement Objectives
Instrument Specifications
Academic Citation & Instrument Provenance
When referencing this instrument in research, academic theses, or clinical institutional audits, please cite the original author publication:
Governance, Boundaries & Ethical Use
This is a 56-item self-report inventory covering only the 5 broad domains (no facet-level breakdown); domain item counts range from 6 to 20, so some domains are measured more precisely than others. Results reflect how you currently see yourself, not an objective or clinical evaluation of personality.
License: Public Domain (International Personality Item Pool, ipip.ori.org). Citation: Goldberg, L. R. (1999). A broad-bandwidth, public-domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In I. Mervielde, I. Deary, F. De Fruyt, & F. Ostendorf (Eds.), Personality Psychology in Europe (Vol. 7, pp. 7-28). Tilburg University Press. This is not a diagnostic tool. Domain scores reflect this test's own item pool only — they are not compared against a published clinical or population norm; no such norm has been entered for this instrument.