Big Five Inventory (BFI)


The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-reportscale that is designed to measure the big five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness).  



Item Coding

The BFI consists of 44 items which are rated on a five-point likert scale from 1 (disagree a lot) to 5 (agree a lot).  

 

Scales

The BFI yields five primary scales.  Descriptions of the scales and item loadings are listed below.  Scale scores are calculated as the sum of respective items.  Underlined/bold items are reverse scored. 
Scale Name (Abbr.) Description Item Loadings
BFI_EXT
 Extraversion Subscale
 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31, 36
BFI_AGR
 Aggreeableness Subscale
 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37, 42
BFI_CON Conscientiousness Subscale 3, 8, 13, 18, 23, 28, 33, 38, 43
BFI_NEU Neuroticism Subscale 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, 34, 39
BFI_OPEN Openness Subscale 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 41, 44


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Created by: Allison Grant
Updated: 1-30-2008