Personality

IPIP-NEO-120 (Big Five Facets)

A 120-item public-domain personality inventory that scores the five broad domains of the Five-Factor Model and resolves each one into six narrower facets — 30 facets in all — for fine-grained profiling. Free.

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Neuroticism

Anxiety · Anger · Depression · Self-Consciousness · Immoderation · Vulnerability

Extraversion

Friendliness · Gregariousness · Assertiveness · Activity Level · Excitement-Seeking · Cheerfulness

Openness to Experience

Imagination · Artistic Interests · Emotionality · Adventurousness · Intellect · Liberalism

Agreeableness

Trust · Morality · Altruism · Cooperation · Modesty · Sympathy

Conscientiousness

Self-Efficacy · Orderliness · Dutifulness · Achievement-Striving · Self-Discipline · Cautiousness

At a glance

Items
120 items
Response
5-point agreement
Time
~20 minutes
Domains
5 Big Five
Facets
30 subscales
Norms
N = 320,128

The domain & facet model

The Five-Factor Model organizes personality into five broad domains. Each domain captures a general tendency, but two people with the same domain score can be quite different underneath. The IPIP-NEO-120 splits every domain into six facets — each scored from four items — so the report shows not just how high you are on a trait but which parts of it drive your score. A high Conscientiousness score that comes from Orderliness reads differently than one driven by Achievement-Striving.

Neuroticism

Sensitivity to negative emotion and stress.

  • Anxiety
  • Anger
  • Depression
  • Self-Consciousness
  • Immoderation
  • Vulnerability

Extraversion

Energy, sociability, and positive engagement with the world.

  • Friendliness
  • Gregariousness
  • Assertiveness
  • Activity Level
  • Excitement-Seeking
  • Cheerfulness

Openness to Experience

Curiosity, imagination, and openness to new ideas and aesthetics.

  • Imagination
  • Artistic Interests
  • Emotionality
  • Adventurousness
  • Intellect
  • Liberalism

Agreeableness

Compassion, cooperation, and concern for others.

  • Trust
  • Morality
  • Altruism
  • Cooperation
  • Modesty
  • Sympathy

Conscientiousness

Organization, persistence, and goal-directed self-control.

  • Self-Efficacy
  • Orderliness
  • Dutifulness
  • Achievement-Striving
  • Self-Discipline
  • Cautiousness

Report includes

An overview of your five Big Five domain scores, each shown with a population percentile and a 90% confidence range, followed by the full 30-facet profile so you can see exactly which facets shape each domain. Scores are referenced against a large public-domain normative sample.

Facet scores are 4-item sums (range 4–20); domain scores are the mean of their six facet sums (range 4–20). The normative comparison comes from the Kajonius & Johnson (2019) public-domain release (N = 320,128). That sample is a large, self-selected online volunteer pool rather than a nationally representative survey, so percentiles should be read as a comparison against other online respondents, not the general population.

Johnson, J. A. (2014). Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory. Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 78–89.   Kajonius, P. J., & Johnson, J. A. (2019). Assessing the Structure of the Five Factor Model of Personality (IPIP-NEO-120) in the Public Domain. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 15(2), 260–275.