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A Short Scale for Assessing the Big Five Dimensions of Personality: 10 Item Big Five Inventory (BFI-10)

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Rammstedt, Beatrice, Kemper, Christoph J., Klein, Mira Céline, Beierlein, Constanze, Kovaleva, Anastassiya·2013·GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
DOI 10.12758/mda.2013.013
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In course of the further establishment of the Five-Factor Model as the predominant model for describing personality there is an increasing demand for assessing the Big Five dimensions of personality in contexts outside the core field of psychology. As in such contexts assessment time is severely limited, established Big Five instruments are generally too lengthy. Especially for such contexts we developed the ultra-short BFI-10 assessing the five dimensions with a total of ten items, respectively an average duration of approximately one minute. The present study validated the BFI-10 based on a large and population representative sample. Results indicate sufficient psychometric properties for the BFI-10 scales and items. In addition, the findings corroborate the construct and criterion validity of the instrument.

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  • Conscientiousness was measured with the extra-short form of the Big-Five-Inventory-2 (Rammstedt et al., 2013) with Cronbach α = 0.76.

    “Conscientiousness was measured with the extra-short form of the Big-Five-Inventory-2 (Rammstedt et al., 2013). The scale had an acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach α = 0.76).”

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    The instrument description (page unavailable) identifies the ultra-short BFI-10 as a measure of the five personality dimensions, which supports its use to assess conscientiousness. It explicitly calls the BFI-10 a short version of the Big Five Inventory (BFI), not the Big Five Inventory-2. The cited paper does not establish the citing study’s reported Cronbach α of 0.76. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Rammstedt, B., Kemper, C. J., Klein, M. C., Beierlein, C., & Kovaleva, A.
Affiliations
University of Luxembourg (LU)
ORCID
Venue
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Publisher
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Published
2013
Volume
7
Issue
2
Pages
32
DOI
10.12758/mda.2013.013
OpenAlex
W1838481526
Cited by
179
References
0
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Type
report
Language
en
Open access
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Locations
  • MADOC (University of Mannheim) (acceptedVersion)
  • Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) (submittedVersion)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • MADOC (University of Mannheim) (submittedVersion)
  • Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) (submittedVersion)
  • Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld) (submittedVersion)
  • Methoden, Daten, Analysen (mda) (cc-by)
  • Methoden, Daten, Analysen (mda)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Psychometric Methodologies and Testing
Keywords
Big Five personality traits, BFI-10, personality assessment, psychometric validation, construct validity, criterion validity

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