Big Five Inventory-2

Subgroup Size

Entire group

Duration

15 minutes

External Cost

No

Source

Soto, C. J.,& John, O. P. (2017). The next big five inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 117-143. 

 

Also see authorized online version: Koerth-Baker & Wolfe (2019). Most personality quizzes are junk science. Take one that isn't. FiveThirtyEight. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/personality-quiz/

Tags:

  1. Assessment
  2. assessment instruments
  3. creativity
  4. curiosity
  5. Languages Other than English
  6. openness
  7. reflective assessment
  8. self-awareness

The Big Five-2 is based on decades of psychology research into personality traits.  Although not positioned by the authors as an "intercultural competence" instrument, three of its sub-scales (openness, extraversion & agreeability) have been show in other validated tools to map onto the practice of effectiveness across difference.

The instrument has been repeatedly validated as measuring personality tendencies that are both stable and predictive; this suggests that it may be best used as a low-cost, low-stakes formative tool and for facilitating discussions of personality norms as a facet of culture. 

There are a number of available versions but Koerth-Baker and Wolfe is the most easily accessible, and produces a supportive and nuanced report. The online version (Links) allows group comparison and sharing.

For Languages Other than English, see also:

Spanish versions:

Rodríguez-Fornells, A., Lorenzo-Seva, U., & Andrés-Pueyo, A. (2001). Psychometric properties of the Spanish adaptation of the Five Factor Personality Inventory. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 17(2), 145.

Benet-Martínez, V., & John, O. P. (1998). Los Cinco Grandes across cultures and ethnic groups: Multitrait-multimethod analyses of the Big Five in Spanish and English. Journal of personality and social psychology, 75(3), 729.

Assessment on p. 749 in English and p. 750 in Spanish of Benet-Martínez & John (1998).

Dutch version:

Denissen, J. J., Geenen, R., Van Aken, M. A., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2008). Development and validation of a Dutch translation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI). Journal of personality assessment, 90(2), 152-157.