Workplace Personality Profile

The Workplace Personality Profile measures seven work-relevant personality dimensions — Adjustment, Ambition, Sociability, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Prudence, Inquisitiveness, and Learning Approach — with 42 public-domain IPIP items. The dimension set mirrors the trait families long studied in personnel psychology while remaining fully reproducible from the open item pool.

Each dimension is scored in its keyed direction and compared with Eugene–Springfield Community Sample reference values in the norms section. It is a normal-range profile for development and self-insight, not a clinical instrument or a validated selection battery.

The notes below are reproduced from the platform's psychometrics register for this instrument — the same source-cited reliability, validity, and norms text that accompanies its downloadable report.

Items are drawn from the IPIP public-domain pool and placed in a workplace-relevant personality framework. Subscale reliabilities are not available from a single published study for this exact operationalization.

The construct dimensions assessed draw on established personality constructs (conscientiousness, emotional stability, agreeableness, and related facets) known to predict work performance across meta-analytic reviews (Barrick & Mount, 1991; Salgado, 1997). Item selection follows IPIP convergent-validity standards.

Scores are expressed as percent-of-maximum on the 1–5 accuracy scale using Higher/Average/Lower bands. No population normative tables have been published for this specific workplace-framed item configuration.

“Seldom feel blue.”

Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.

Item responses are summed within each scale (reverse-keyed items recoded first) and expressed as a population percentile against the cited reference sample, with a reliability-based confidence range where α is published.

Norms computed from the Eugene-Springfield Community Sample (ESCS) — Lewis R. Goldberg’s adult community panel from Eugene and Springfield, Oregon (Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/UF52WY). This is a community sample and is NOT nationally representative. The mean, standard deviation, reference N and Cronbach’s α were computed directly from the raw IPIP item-level responses on THIS scale’s exact item set and reverse-keying (complete cases); reference N varies by scale and is shown with each scale below. The confidence range uses the standard error of measurement (SEM = SD·√(1−α)) from that computed α.

Items drawn from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), placed in the public domain. Goldberg, L. R., et al. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84–96.