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Big Five Inventory (BFI-44), ready to run

A 44-item self-report inventory measuring the Big Five personality dimensions (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness) using short phrase items. A de facto standard in personality research that balances brevity with subscale-level reliability.

44 items · 5 sections · 5-point Likert scale

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Item wording for the BFI-44 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 · 8 items
Agreeableness · 9 items
Conscientiousness · 9 items
Neuroticism · 8 items
Openness · 10 items

Reverse-scored: items 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28, 31, 33, 41 and 43. Surveyor scores them for you.

Each item is answered on this scale:

Disagree stronglyDisagree a littleNeither agree nor disagreeAgree a littleAgree strongly

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