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Big Five Personality Assessment

Different people have different personalities, and these personalities can affect outcomes in the
workplace. Understanding your own personality can help you to understand how and why you behave as
you do.

Instructions:
In this assessment, you will read 50 phrases that describe people. Use the provided rating scale to
indicate how accurately each phrase describes you. Rate yourself as you generally are now, not as you
wish to be in the future; and rate yourself as you honestly see yourself.

Keep in mind that very few people have extreme scores on all or even most of the items (a “1” or a “5” is
an extreme score); most people have midrange scores for many of the items. Read each item carefully,
and then circle the number that corresponds to your choice from the rating scale.

1 Am the life of the party. 1 2 3 4 5


2 Feel little concern for others. 1 2 3 4 5
3 Am always prepared. 1 2 3 4 5
4 Get stressed out easily. 1 2 3 4 5
5 Have a rich vocabulary. 1 2 3 4 5
6 Don’t talk a lot. 1 2 3 4 5
7 Am interested in people. 1 2 3 4 5
8 Leave my belongings around. 1 2 3 4 5
9 Am relaxed most of the time. 1 2 3 4 5
10 Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas. 1 2 3 4 5
11 Feel comfortable around people. 1 2 3 4 5
12 Insult people. 1 2 3 4 5
13 Pay attention to details. 1 2 3 4 5
14 Worry about things. 1 2 3 4 5
15 Have a vivid imagination. 1 2 3 4 5
16 Keep in the background. 1 2 3 4 5
17 Sympathize with others’ feelings. 1 2 3 4 5
18 Make a mess of things. 1 2 3 4 5
19 Seldom feel blue. 1 2 3 4 5
20 Am not interested in abstract ideas. 1 2 3 4 5
21 Start conversations. 1 2 3 4 5
22 Am not interested in other people’s problems. 1 2 3 4 5
23 Get chores done right away. 1 2 3 4 5

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​Source: International Personality Item Pool. 2001. A Scientifi c Collaboration for the Development of Advanced Measures
of Personality Traits and Other Individual Differences (http://ipip.ori.org).
24 Am easily disturbed. 1 2 3 4 5
25 Have excellent ideas. 1 2 3 4 5
26 Have little to say. 1 2 3 4 5
27 Have a soft heart. 1 2 3 4 5
28 Often forget to put things back in their proper place. 1 2 3 4 5
29 Get easily upset. 1 2 3 4 5
30 Do not have a good imagination. 1 2 3 4 5
31 Talk to a lot of different people at parties. 1 2 3 4 5
32 Am not really interested in others. 1 2 3 4 5
33 Like order. 1 2 3 4 5
34 Change my mood a lot. 1 2 3 4 5
35 Am quick to understand things. 1 2 3 4 5
36 Don’t like to draw attention to myself. 1 2 3 4 5
37 Take time out for others. 1 2 3 4 5
38 Shirk my duties. 1 2 3 4 5
39 Have frequent mood swings. 1 2 3 4 5
40 Use difficult words. 1 2 3 4 5
41 Don’t mind being the center of attention. 1 2 3 4 5
42 Feel others’ emotions. 1 2 3 4 5
43 Follow a schedule. 1 2 3 4 5
44 Get irritated easily. 1 2 3 4 5
45 Spend time reflecting on things. 1 2 3 4 5
46 Am quiet around strangers. 1 2 3 4 5
47 Make people feel at ease. 1 2 3 4 5
48 Am exact in my work. 1 2 3 4 5
49 Often feel blue. 1 2 3 4 5
50 Am full of ideas. 1 2 3 4 5

Scoring Key:
To determine your scores, combine your responses to the items above as follows:

DIMENSION FORMULA YOUR


SCORE
Extraversion (Item 1 + Item 11 + Item 21 + Item 31 + Item 41) +
(30 - (Item 6 + Item 16 + Item 26 + Item 36 + Item 46))
Conscientiousness (Item 3 + Item 13 + Item 23 + Item 33 + Item 43 + Item 48) +
(24 – (Item 8 + Item 18 + Item 28 + Item 38))
Agreeableness (Item 7 + Item 17 + Item 27 + Item 37 + Item 42 + Item 47) +
(24 – (Item 2 + Item 12 + Item 22 + Item 32))
Emotional stability (Item 9 + Item 19) +
(48 – (Item 4 + Item 14 + Item 24 + Item 29 + Item 34 + Item 39 +
Item 44 + Item 49))
Openness to (Item 5 + Item 15 + Item 25 + Item 35 + Item 40 + Item 45 + Item 50)
experience + (18 – (Item 10 + Item 20 + Item 30))
Scores for each trait can range from 10 to 50. Scores of 40 and above may be considered high,
while scores of 20 and below may be considered low.

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