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
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.”
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
| Scale | M | SD | N | α | Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volatility | 24.74 | 6.96 | 499 | 0.84 | summed raw |
| Withdrawal | 24.51 | 7.38 | 508 | 0.85 | summed raw |
| Compassion | 41.27 | 5.43 | 570 | 0.84 | summed raw |
| Industriousness | 38.01 | 5.95 | 623 | 0.80 | summed raw |
| Orderliness | 37.28 | 6.34 | 507 | 0.80 | summed raw |
| Intellect | 37.18 | 6.60 | 513 | 0.83 | summed 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).