Short measurements of personality—Validity and reliability of the GSOEP Big Five Inventory (BFI-S).

By Elisabeth Hahn, Juliana Gottschling, F. Spinath. 2012

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In the last decade, an upward trend in the use of short measurements for personality can be observed. The goal of this study was to explore the psychometric characteristics of the GSOEP Big Five Inventory (BFI-S; Gerlitz & Schupp, 2005), a 15-item instrument. We compared the BFI-S with the NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992a, 1992b) in a sample of 598 German adults (mean age = 42 years). Despite shortcomings for Agreeableness, the short scales generally showed acceptable levels of: (1) internal consistency, (2) stability over a period of 18 months, (3) convergent validity in relation to the NEO-PI-R and (4) discriminant validity. We conclude that in research settings with a pronounced need for parsimony, the BFI-S offers a sufficient level of utility.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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• The association between personality and cognitive ability: Going beyond simple effects (2016, result): “However, in evaluating these it has to be kept in mind, that (a) Cronbach’s alpha is only a lower bound estimate of reliability for heterogeneous scales, (b) the BFI-S items were selected to be heterogeneous and to represent a maximum bandwidth of the corresponding construct, and (c) the coefficient”
• Performance appraisals and job satisfaction (2017, neutral): “8 As personality traits are quite constant over time (Lucas & Donnellan, 2011; Hahn et al., 2012), we match individual means of the respective items for each of the five personality dimensions Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, Extraversion, and Agreeableness to the years for wh”