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Big Five Personality (Mini-IPIP)

Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional sensitivity and openness: how you usually are.

20 items · About 4 min

How to answerEach line describes a behavior. Answer for how you generally are now, not as you wish to be, compared with people of your sex and roughly your age.

  1. Am the life of the party.
  2. Sympathize with others' feelings.
  3. Get chores done right away.
  4. Have frequent mood swings.
  5. Have a vivid imagination.
  6. Talk to a lot of different people at parties.
  7. Feel others' emotions.
  8. Like order.
  9. Get upset easily.
  10. Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas.
  11. Don't talk a lot.
  12. Am not interested in other people's problems.
  13. Often forget to put things back in their proper place.
  14. Am relaxed most of the time.
  15. Am not interested in abstract ideas.
  16. Keep in the background.
  17. Am not really interested in others.
  18. Make a mess of things.
  19. Seldom feel blue.
  20. Do not have a good imagination.
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About this scale

The Big Five is the most studied model of personality. The Mini-IPIP is its 20-item short form, good for a quick outline of yourself. No trait is good or bad; both ends of every scale have strengths.

SourceDonnellan, M. B., Oswald, F. L., Baird, B. M., & Lucas, R. E. (2006). The Mini-IPIP scales. Psychological Assessment, 18(2), 192–203. Items from the IPIP, public domain.