Which personality traits do people have?

The Big Five Inventory measures people’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving in terms of the big five personality trait domains (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness). This survey can be used to explore the relationship between personality traits and things like behaviors, habits, and career decisions and to study what factors influence personality traits such as the environment (i.e. are personality traits stable over the course of adulthood?). Past research suggests that extraversion predisposes people to feeling positive emotion (Shiota et al., 2006).

Resources

• Cherry, K. (2020). The Big Five Personality Traits. Very Well Mind.
• John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big-Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (Vol. 2, pp. 102–138). New York: Guilford Press.
• Shiota, M.N., Keltner, D., & John, O. P. (2006). Positive emotion dispositions differentially associated with Big Five personality and attachment style. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1, 61-71.

Parameters
This survey cannot be tweaked.

What data is collected? How is it scored?
The following variables are recorded:

• BIG5_extraversion
• BIG5_agreeableness
• BIG5_conscientiousness
• BIG5_neuroticism
• BIG5_openness

Raw data: 10 questions broken into 5 categories (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness). Each question uses a 5-point likert scale. 5 questions (one per category) are reverse-coded.
Each category's score ranges from 2 to 10.

Calculation:
Subscores are determined by adding the scores of the questions in each category. Scores range from 1 ("disagree strongly") to 5 ("agree strongly"). If an item is reverse-scored, the score is subtracted from 6. E.g. if a question is reverse-scored, and the participant responds "disagree strongly", then this question will be scored as a 5 rather than 1.