Self-report measure

Big Five Aspect Scales

A 100-item public-domain IPIP measure of the ten aspects (two per Big Five domain) of the Five-Factor Model.

At a glance

Items
100
Response scale
5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate)
Est. time
~33 min
Subscales
10
Norms
Referenced (N = 623)
Access
Free, self-serve

Detailed write-up pending

A full, citation-backed scientific write-up for this scale — overview, clinical use, and psychometrics in the voice of a dissertation "Measures" section — has not yet been authored. To honor the platform's no-fabricated-sources rule, this page currently shows only the verified registry facts above (item count, structure, scoring, and any published norms). No validity coefficients, reliability figures, or citations are shown here that cannot be traced to a named source; the authored write-up will be added once its sources have been read and recorded in the plan-integrity file.

Subscales

Volatility 10 items

how readily you feel and show negative emotion

Withdrawal 10 items

how prone you are to anxiety, worry, and discouragement

Compassion 10 items

how much you care about and connect with others' feelings

Politeness 10 items

how respectful and considerate you are of others

Industriousness 10 items

how hard-working and goal-focused you are

Orderliness 10 items

how much you seek order, routine, and tidiness

Enthusiasm 10 items

how sociable, warm, and outgoing you are

Assertiveness 10 items

how forceful, take-charge, and driven you are

Intellect 10 items

how engaged you are with ideas and abstract problems

Openness 10 items

how drawn you are to art, beauty, and imagination

Example item

“Get angry easily.”

Very InaccurateModerately InaccurateNeither Accurate nor InaccurateModerately AccurateVery Accurate

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

Scoring & interpretation

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.

Psychometrics & norms

ScaleMSDNαMetric
Volatility24.746.964990.84summed raw
Withdrawal24.517.385080.85summed raw
Compassion41.275.435700.84summed raw
Industriousness38.015.956230.80summed raw
Orderliness37.286.345070.80summed raw
Intellect37.186.605130.83summed raw

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.

Source & citation

DeYoung, C. G., Quilty, L. C., & Peterson, J. B. (2007). Between facets and domains: 10 aspects of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 880–896. Items via the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org).