For further details on the instruments, please contact their authors. I did not develop them and have not used them in my own research so I cannot evaluate them.
They differ in the procedures used to develop them and the degree to which they have been validated. I have included them here as a resource for researchers but their inclusion does not imply that I endorse them. These translations have been provided by their developers for research use. The one published analysis (Furnham, 2008) that compared several very brief measures suggested that the TIPI “achieves slightly better validity than the other measures.” Moreover, all three instruments take about the same length of time to complete (because the 5 items of the SIMP are longer and more complex than than the items in the 10-item tests). In my own (unpublished) analyses all three instruments perform about equally well in terms of convergence with the NEO-PI-R assessed several weeks later. These include the Single-Item Measure of Personality (SIMP Wood & Hampson, 2005) and another 10-item measure (Rammstedt & John, 2007). In response to the need for very brief measures of the Big Five, a couple of other measures have been developed in addition to the TIPI. If you have any questions about it, please contact Justin.Ĭomparisons with other very brief Big Five scales Justin Cheng has created an spss syntax file to compute the scores. If you have any questions about the spreadsheet please contact Dr. Click here to get a copy of the spreadsheet. LOOKING FOR A QUICK WAY TO COMPUTE AND DISPLAY TIPI SCORES?ĭaniel DeNeui has created an excel spreadsheet, which computes your scores and plots them alongside the norms we have published. So the TIPI Extraversion scale score would be: (5 + 6)/2 = 5.5 Second, take the average of the score for item 1 and the (recoded) score for item 6. First, recode the reverse-scored item (i.e., item 6), replacing the 2 with a 6. Take the AVERAGE of the two items (the standard item and the recoded reverse-scored item) that make up each scale.Įxample using the Extraversion scale: A participant has scores of 5 on item 1 (Extraverted, enthusiastic) and and 2 on item 6 (Reserved, quiet). The reverse scored items are 2, 4, 6, 8, & 10.Ģ. Recode the reverse-scored items (i.e., recode a 7 with a 1, a 6 with a 2, a 5 with a 3, etc.). Unpublished Data.ĭemographic information on the norms can be found here.ġ. Norms for the Ten Item Personality Inventory. The norms should be cited as, Gosling, S. The TIPI norms were based on data collected here:
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On the basis of these tests, a 10-item measure of the Big Five dimensions is offered for situations when very short measures are needed, personality is not the primary topic of interest, or researchers can tolerate the somewhat diminished psychometric properties associated with very brief measures.Ĥ. TIPI norms (in pdf from Jason Rentfrow’s online study of Music Preferences): Male Norms Female Norms Although somewhat inferior to standard multi-item instruments, the instruments reached adequate levels in terms of (a) convergence with widely used Big-Five measures in self, observer, and peer reports, (b) test-retest reliability, (c) patterns of predicted external correlates, and (d) convergence between self and observer ratings. To meet the need for a very brief measure, 5 and 10-item inventories were developed and evaluated. When time is limited, researchers may be faced with the choice of using an extremely brief measure of the Big-Five personality dimensions or using no measure at all. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 504-528. A Very Brief Measure of the Big Five Personality Domains. Before you use this instrument, please read this note on alpha reliability and factor structure. The TIPI is a 10-item measure of the Big Five (or Five-Factor Model) dimensions.