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Mini IPIP

The document describes the Mini-IPIP Scale, a 20-item personality inventory that measures the five factors of personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. It provides instructions for participants to rate how accurately each statement describes themselves and then provides a scoring key to calculate subscale scores that can be compared to norms.

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Mini IPIP

The document describes the Mini-IPIP Scale, a 20-item personality inventory that measures the five factors of personality: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. It provides instructions for participants to rate how accurately each statement describes themselves and then provides a scoring key to calculate subscale scores that can be compared to norms.

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The Mini-IPIP Scale (Donnellan, Oswald, Baird, & Lucas, 2006)

Instructions: Below are phrases describing people’s behaviors. Please use the
rating scale below to describe how accurately each statement describes you.
Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future.
Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you
know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. Please read each
statement carefully, and put a number from 1 to 5 next to it to describe how
accurately the statement describes you.

1 = Very inaccurate
2 = Moderately inaccurate
3 = Neither inaccurate nor accurate
4 = Moderately accurate
5 = Very accurate

1. _______ Am the life of the party (E)


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

Scoring: The first thing you must do is to reverse the items that are worded in
the opposite direction. In order to do this, subtract the number you put for that
item from 6. So if you put a 4, for instance, it will become a 2. Cross out the score
you put when you took the scale, and put the new number in representing your
score subtracted from the number 6.

*Items to be reversed in this way: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Next, you need to add up the scores for each of the five OCEAN scales (including
the reversed numbers where relevant). Each OCEAN score will be the sum of
four items. Place the sum next to each scale below.

__________ Openness: Add items 5, 10, 15, 20

__________ Conscientiousness: Add items 3, 8, 13, 18

__________ Extraversion: Add items 1, 6, 11, 16

__________ Agreeableness: Add items 2, 7, 12, 17

__________ Neuroticism: Add items 4, 9,14, 19

Compare your scores to the norms below to see where you stand on each scale.
If you are low on a trait, it means you are the opposite of the trait label. For
example, low on Extraversion is Introversion, low on Openness is Conventional,
and low on Agreeableness is Assertive.

19–20 Extremely High,  17–18 Very High,  14–16 High,   

11–13 Neither high nor low; in the middle,  8–10 Low,  6–7 Very low,   4–5
Extremely low

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