Six-Factor Personality Scales
Public-domain IPIP markers for a six-factor personality structure. 24 scales, 233 items.
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
Agreeableness 10 items
Achievement 10 items
Deliberateness 10 items
Seriousness 10 items
Self Reliance 10 items
Methodicalness 10 items
Good-natured 8 items
Change 10 items
Industriousness 10 items
Order 10 items
Extraversion 10 items
Endurance 10 items
Affiliation 10 items
Openness to Experience 10 items
Exhibition 10 items
Individualism 9 items
Even-tempered 10 items
Dominance 10 items
Understanding 10 items
Independence 10 items
Breadth of Interest 10 items
Autonomy 10 items
Cognitive Structure 8 items
Abasement 8 items
Example item
“Accept people as they are.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agreeableness | 36.56 | 5.21 | 570 | 0.73 | summed raw |
| Achievement | 39.48 | 5.99 | 600 | 0.81 | summed raw |
| Deliberateness | 36.84 | 5.58 | 570 | 0.76 | summed raw |
| Seriousness | 28.44 | 5.54 | 524 | 0.71 | summed raw |
| Methodicalness | 39.25 | 5.37 | 570 | 0.77 | summed raw |
| Good-natured | 28.80 | 4.31 | 795 | 0.64 | summed raw |
| Industriousness | 37.02 | 5.99 | 531 | 0.75 | summed raw |
| Order | 36.73 | 6.92 | 570 | 0.81 | summed raw |
| Extraversion | 33.42 | 7.38 | 531 | 0.85 | summed raw |
| Endurance | 36.42 | 4.93 | 600 | 0.66 | summed raw |
| Affiliation | 35.46 | 7.71 | 600 | 0.88 | summed raw |
| Openness to Experience | 36.78 | 5.83 | 570 | 0.79 | summed raw |
| Exhibition | 26.62 | 7.44 | 531 | 0.83 | summed raw |
| Individualism | 28.33 | 5.56 | 586 | 0.73 | summed raw |
| Even-tempered | 35.51 | 7.48 | 570 | 0.87 | summed raw |
| Dominance | 30.90 | 7.12 | 531 | 0.84 | summed raw |
| Understanding | 37.22 | 7.05 | 570 | 0.82 | summed raw |
| Breadth of Interest | 39.42 | 6.47 | 600 | 0.81 | summed raw |
| Autonomy | 30.73 | 5.31 | 531 | 0.67 | summed raw |
| Cognitive Structure | 30.83 | 4.37 | 570 | 0.60 | summed raw |
| Abasement | 18.00 | 4.52 | 623 | 0.66 | 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
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.