psych (version 1.0-42)

bfi: 25 Personality items representing 5 factors

Description

25 personality self report items taken from the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org) were included as part of the Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment (SAPA) web based personality assessment project. The data from 1000 subjects are included here as a demonstration set for scale construction and factor analysis.

Usage

data(bfi)

source

The items are from the ipip. The data are from the SAPA project, collected fall,2006.

Details

The 25 items are organized by five putative factors: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Opennness.

Examples

data(bfi)
describe(bfi)
keys <- matrix(c(-1,1,1,1,1,rep(0,25),1,1,1,-1,-1,rep(0,25),-1,-1,1,1,1,rep(0,25),1,1,1,1,1,rep(0,25),1,-1,1,1,-1),ncol=5)
rownames(keys) <- colnames(bfi)
colnames(keys) <- c("Agreeable","Conscientious","Extravert","Neurotic","Open")
score.items(keys,bfi,short=TRUE)