Scale Overview & Construct
A public-domain 227-item measure of 30 temperament and character facets from Cloninger's TCI model.
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 227-item self-report inventory covering 30 separate facets; individual facet scores are based on as few as 1 and as many as 10 items each, so shorter facets (some with only 2-4 items) are far less precise than longer ones and should be read with that in mind. One item from the source instrument's Satisfaction facet was excluded from this build because its own source text was truncated and could not be verified — that facet has 9 items instead of the source's 10. 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), representing constructs from Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory. Citation: Cloninger, C. R., Przybeck, T. R., Svrakic, D. M., & Wetzel, R. D. (1994). The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI): A guide to its development and use. Center for Psychobiology of Personality, Washington University. This is not a diagnostic tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the publisher of the original TCI instrument. Facet 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.