Before you begin

Big Five Personality

The Big Five (or OCEAN) model describes personality along five broad, independent dimensions: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability. It is the framework most widely used in academic personality research.

30 questions~ 12 minutes5-point agreement scale

Five-Factor Model (OCEAN)

Scientific basis

  • Goldberg, L. R. (1993). The structure of phenotypic personality traits. American Psychologist, 48(1), 26–34. View publication
  • Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) professional manual. View publication
  • Goldberg, L. R., et al. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84–96. View publication
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