Personality Inventories

Personality inventories are batteries that assess constellations of traits. We divide inventories into two groups:

1. Big Five inventories assess the constellation of traits defined by the Five Factor Theory of Personality (see Digman, 1990).
2. Other personality inventories assess constellations of traits defined by other theories of personality, a subset of the Big Five traits, or a superset of traits that may include the Big Five.

For more personality items, see also the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). For measures assessing specific traits rather than a constellation of traits, see Constructs.

Big Five Inventories

Big Five Inventory (BFI)		John et al. (1991)
Big Five Markers		Shafer (1997, 1999)
Big Five Questionnaire (BFQ)		Caprara et al. (1993)
Five Item Personality Inventory (FIPI)		Gosling et al. (2003)
NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)		Costa & McCrae (1989,1992)
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R)		Costa & McCrae (1992)
Short Adjective Checklist (SACBIF) (Italian only)		Perugini & Leone (1996)
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PFQ)		Cattell et al. (1970, 1980)
Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI)		Gosling et al. (2003)
Trait Descriptive Adjectives (TDA)		Goldberg (1992)

Other Personality Inventories

Some of these measures are also listed under Risk Attitude: Related Personality Traits or Constructs: Impulsiveness
Adjective Checklist		Gough & Heilbrun (1965)
California Psychological Inventory (CPI)		Gough (1987)
Eysenck's Impulsivity Inventory		Eysenck & Eysenck (1978)
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ)		Eysenck & Eysenck (1975)
HEXACO Personality Inventory (HEXACO PI)		Lee & Ashton (2004)
Jackson Personality Inventory (JPI)		Jackson (1976)
Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI)		Eysenck (1959)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)		Hathaway & McKinley (1943)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator		Myers (1962)
Risk Avoidance Scale (RAS), one sub-scale of the Personality/Attitude Schedule		Shure & Meeker (1967)
Temperament and Character Inventory		Cloninger et al. (1993)
Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ)		Zuckerman & Kuhlman (2000)

References

Digman, J. M. (1990). Personality structure: Emergence of the five-factor structure. Annual Review of Psychology, 41, 417-440.

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