Big Five personality
The personality model with the most scientific backing.
Measures the big five traits (OCEAN): Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. It's the standard model in personality psychology and the basis of most of your insights.
Personality · 5
Openness
Intellectual curiosity, imagination and taste for the new versus a preference for the familiar.
Conscientiousness
Self-discipline, order and goal orientation versus improvisation.
Extraversion
How much energy you gain (or lose) from social contact.
Agreeableness
Empathy, trust in others and a tendency to cooperate rather than compete.
Neuroticism
How intensely you experience negative emotions: worry, mood swings, stress.
Where this comes from
This test draws on published, peer-reviewed instruments. It is not a certified adaptation: the items are rewritten in everyday language.
- [1]Goldberg (1992). Psychological Assessment, 4(1), 26–42
The paper that established the markers for the five factors.
- [2]International Personality Item Pool (IPIP)
Public-domain item bank the format is adapted from.
- [3]Soto & John (2017). BFI-2. JPSP, 113(1), 117–143
Modern version of the inventory, with revised facets.