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Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2), ready to run

A 60-item hierarchical measure of the Big Five personality domains, each with three facets, updating the original Big Five Inventory.

60 items · 5 sections · 5-point Likert

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Item wording for the BFI-2 is available inside Folio Surveyor, subject to the instrument's licensing. The structure below (its sections, items and response scale) is what gets built for you.

The instrument

Extraversion · 12 items
Agreeableness · 12 items
Conscientiousness · 12 items
Negative Emotionality · 12 items
Open-Mindedness · 12 items

Reverse-scored: items 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30, 34, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 45, 46, 49, 53, 54, 57, 58 and 59. Surveyor scores them for you.

Each item is answered on this scale:

Disagree stronglyDisagree a littleNeutral; no opinionAgree a littleAgree strongly

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