Self-report measure

Big-Five Factor Markers (100)

A 100-item public-domain IPIP set of Goldberg's Big-Five factor markers. 5 scales, 100 items.

At a glance

Items
100
Response scale
5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate)
Est. time
~33 min
Subscales
5
Norms
Referenced (N = 600)
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

Extraversion 20 items

Conscientiousness 20 items

Emotional Stability 20 items

Intellect/Imagination 20 items

Agreeableness 20 items

Example item

“Am a very private person.”

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
Extraversion63.4513.646000.91summed raw
Conscientiousness77.3411.055700.88summed raw
Emotional Stability70.0913.935700.91summed raw
Intellect/Imagination74.2912.105700.90summed raw
Agreeableness80.949.695700.88summed 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

Public-domain items from the International Personality Item Pool (Goldberg, L. R., 1999; ipip.ori.org). Scale membership and reverse-keying taken verbatim from Goldberg's IPIP multi-scale map (ScalesFor967items). Construct names from ipip.ori.org.