Workplace Personality Profile
A 42-item profile of seven work-relevant personality dimensions — Adjustment, Ambition, Sociability, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Prudence, Inquisitiveness, and Learning Approach — built entirely from public-domain IPIP items. Non-diagnostic; describes typical dispositions relevant to work and collaboration.
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
Adjustment 6 items
how calm, steady, and resilient you stay under stress
Ambition 6 items
how driven you are to lead, achieve, and get ahead
Sociability 6 items
how much you seek out social interaction
Interpersonal Sensitivity 6 items
how warm, tactful, and considerate you are with others
Prudence 6 items
how conscientious, dependable, and rule-abiding you are
Inquisitive 6 items
how curious, imaginative, and idea-oriented you are
Learning Approach 6 items
how much you value staying up to date and learning
Example item
“Seldom feel blue.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambition | 20.51 | 3.21 | 795 | 0.57 | summed raw |
| Sociability | 19.96 | 4.53 | 600 | 0.75 | summed raw |
| Interpersonal Sensitivity | 23.67 | 3.13 | 645 | 0.67 | summed raw |
| Prudence | 23.00 | 3.51 | 570 | 0.60 | summed raw |
| Inquisitive | 20.67 | 4.04 | 600 | 0.65 | summed raw |
| Learning Approach | 22.50 | 3.89 | 600 | 0.69 | 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
Items drawn from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), placed in the public domain. Goldberg, L. R., et al. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84–96.