Mike,
The most widely used short measure of the Big 5 is John and
Srivastava's 44-item Big Five Inventory which is found in the Handbook
of Personality. It cane be found here:
www.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/pubs/bigfive.pdf.
Another excellent short measure that captures the full spectrum of
personality is Brent Donnellan's 42-item short measure of the MPQ
(although this isn't set up along the Big Five framework). Find it in
Donnellan, M. B., Conger, R. D, and Burzette, B. G. (2005).
Criterion-Related Validity, Self-Other Agreement, and Longitudinal
Analyses for the Iowa Personality Questionnaire: A Short Alternative
to the MPQ. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 458-485.
Brent Roberts and Walton have been using a 43-item adjective-based
measure for a number of years that is based on Goldberg and Saucier's
mini-marker scales, but they have not published the item content.
Should you wish to use this, I can furnish the item content.
There is a 10-item personality test that Sam Gosling developed called
the TIPI, but I would strongly urge you to avoid it as it doesn't
capture the breadth of personality very well at all. If you go with
this option, you will likely end up having grossly underestimated
effect-sizes. Most studies I've seen that have used this fail to find
personality effects and mistakingly conclude that no relationship
exists.
An alternative to this is a 20-item scale developed for Microsoft that
Dustin Wood and I will be presenting at the Association for Research
in Personality Conference this year. It outperforms the TIPI by a
wide margin and is still an appropriate length for phone surveys.
Best,
Peter Harms
Gallup Leadership Institute
Quoting Michael Johnson <
mdj3@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>:
> I am looking for a measure of the Big 5 personality factors that is fairly
> short. I have searched journals and looked on the IPIP website
> (http://ipip.ori.org/ipip/), but can't find anything shorter than 50 items.
> Now, I know that the Big 5 are broad personality factors and thus are best
> measured by a larger number of items, but survey length is an issue. Does
> anyone know of a Big 5 measure that is shorter than 50 items?
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> Mike
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