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Psychological Personality Tool

“The Big Five”

- Dr Edwin van Thiel,

Test Result: https://www.123test.com/report/B146GY13QOIYTQKK2Q/

What is the Big Five Personality Tool

The Big Five Personality Test is by far the most scientifically validated and reliable psychological
model to measure personality. This test is, together with the Jung test (MBTI test style) and the
DISC assessment, one of the most well-known personality tests worldwide. This free personality
test is fast and reliable. It is also used commercially by psychologists, career counselors, and
other professionals that conduct personality assessments.
In the free report, you won't be pigeonholed into a single type, but you will learn how you score
on the big five personality traits and learn what 30 subscales exist additionally, you can even
upgrade to an extended report if you like.

Instructions
- This personality test contains 120 statements. There is no time limit. Most people take
about 15 minutes - please allow yourself plenty of time.
- Please respond to all of the statements and answer in sequence.
- Double-check that you have made the right choice. If you need to change an answer,
simply select the new response and the incorrect response will disappear.
- Try not to use the 'Neutral' option too often.
- Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future.
 - Describe yourself, as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people of the same
sex and of roughly the same age. Your spontaneous answer is usually the most accurate.

For each statement choose the response that best represents your opinion:

-- Strongly Disagree If you strongly disagree or if

the statement is definitely
false.
- Disagree If you disagree or if the
statement is mostly false.
-/+ Neutral If you are neutral about the
statement, if you cannot
decide, or if the statement is
about equally true and false.
+ Agree If you agree or if the
statement is mostly true.
++ Strongly Agree If you strongly agree or if the
statement is definitely true.

Evaluation:
The Big Five, just like the famous Myers Briggs is a personality test. The Big Five Personality
Test, also known as the Big Five, is considered the epitome of modern personality tests.

Validity
According to the website, this test has been validated by Psychologists and Researchers. With
this article which talks in depth about how the researchers have been studying this test:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104167/
This is by: J Pers Soc Psychol. Author Manuscript
The Big Five are correlated in expected directions with observed characteristics of subjects
during interviews. Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness are
positively correlated with smiling and negatively correlated with shyness. They also positively
correlate with talkativeness and negatively correlate with distractedness, but the effect sizes
are smaller. Neuroticism is positively correlated with the respondent’s shyness and negatively
correlated with smiling.
Reliability
The Big Five personality test is short and easy to answer. Its interpretation of results is easy to
understand too.
However, I came up to this article: https://qz.com/1201773/we-took-the-worlds-most-
scientific-personality-test-and-discovered-unexpectedly-sexist-results/
Saying that the Big Five personality tests has been frowned upon by some researchers. Despite
its scientific validity, and even with the contemporary fascination with personality tests, the Big
Five is relatively unpopular outside of academia. A recent FiveThirtyEight article on the subject
suggested that personality scientists haven’t effectively marketed the one credible personality
test. But there are serious concerns not just with the marketing of the test, but with how it’s
presented to a public audience. Despite the scientific rigor around the Big Five in academia,
many online versions of the test are designed to give sexist results.

Standardization
The Big Five Personality Test is one of the most popular personality tests worldwide. It has been
continuously developed since the 1970s. Two separate research teams found ways of
evaluating personality according to the Big Five traits and created their own tests. Paul Costa
and Robert McCrae at the National Institutes of Health created the NEO Personality Inventory,
while Lewis Goldberg at the Oregon Research Institute created the IPIP-NEO inventory. (Both
have been refined and updated in the years since.) In 1998, Oliver John from Berkeley
Personality Lab and Verónica Benet-Martinez, a psychology professor at the University of
California at Davis, created the 44-item “Big Five Inventory” (BFI).
The BFI: https://fetzer.org/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/selfmeasures/Personality-
BigFiveInventory.pdf

Usability
Personality tests are often used by the human resources department, to further assess their
employees. Some also use this for personal insights, and for fun.
The usability of this test is fair. How the test is scored will depend on which one you take. If you
take the one suggested above, it will give you a score for each of the five personality traits, and
will let you know if you scored higher or lower than others who have taken the test. Other tests
give you a score that is a series of letters and numbers – for example, O93-C74-E31-A96-N5.
The letters stand for each dimension, and the numbers are the percentage of people who
scored lower than you for each of these. So a score of O93 would mean that 93 percent of
people who took the test scored lower than you in openness. This means that you're more
creative and open to new experiences than 93 percent of the people who took the test. A score
of C74 would mean that 74 percent of people who took the test scored lower than you in
conscientiousness. This means that you'll likely be more organized and self-disciplined than 74
percent of the people who took the test.
Figure 1: Hierarchical Representation of Personality Traits Including Facets and Sub-Facets:
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_22.htm

Weakness and Strength of the Test

Critics of the Big Five argue that the factors of the personality test are not independent of each
other; for example, a pleasant person is more likely to be open and outgoing. The Big Five omits
several important personality traits such as sense of humor, masculinity, femininity, honesty,
manipulativeness, and frugality. Finally, The Big Five also presents the possibility of falsification
and bias because the answers are collected through self-answered questions.
strengths
- Since the 1990s there has been increasing evidence to support the Big Five traits (over
other models)
- Moreover, these traits seem to be the result of approximately equal influence from
environment and hereditary circumstances
- The Big Five traits seem to be prevalent in non-Western cultures
- modified versions discuss five 'personality developments' rather than traits (this allows
for fluidity with time)
weaknesses
- the rankings of these traits change with time:
"Extroversion, Neuroticism, and Openness generally decrease as a person ages"
- gender and birth-order have been found to be correlated with these traits (i.e. first-
borns are generally less agreeable)
- The five factors are not independent variables
- rely on self-report methods - inherent self bias
Therefore, factors like current health, or mood, can change a person's responses.
 However, Hirsh & Peterson (2008) have formulated a set of questions that seems
immune to self-enhancement - see psych-it link below.
E notes: https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-are-the-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-
the-big-379187

Input/Comments/Reaction

Once the pandemic hit, most people turn to the online world to do almost everything. For
work, for study, for fun. I remember, in my teen days, I’d go grab a book for leisure or play
sudoku in the old newspapers and magazines my mom would fondly collect. But now kids play
on their phones and go to social media, especially TikTok.
Tiktok, is where I discovered a community that merely talks about personality tests, MBTI and
EQs.
Myers Brigss 16 personality test is very popular, and I really like that test. Due to its popularity a
lot of researchers and other psychologists are also putting their input into developing the test
further – or have given their comments about it.
I would say the Big Five test is simple and the explanation of your results is very generalized.
This might be the reason why it is widely used.
Taking the test was easy and fun, reading the results though was bland. It could have been
more specific and direct.
Hopefully this test will be much more developed in the future and be of much use.