Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German

By Beatrice Rammstedt, Oliver P. John. 2007

4,263 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. C. Soto
2. M. Back
3. Oliver P. John
4. Emily C. Nusbaum
5. Boris Egloff
6. S. Schmukle
7. Paul J Silvia
8. Harald Schoen

In Social Psychology

1. Emily C. Nusbaum
2. Paul J Silvia
3. Ryan T. Howell
4. J. Duckitt
5. Christopher L. Martin
6. He Peng
7. C. Soto
8. Miltos Kyriakidis

Citations in the corpus

• Personality and Legislative Politics: The Big Five Trait Dimensions Among U.S. State Legislators (2012, methodology): “9 For conscientiousness, the phrase used by Rammstedt and John (2007) is “does a thorough job.””
• A Survey of Personality Computing (2014, neutral): “Short questionnaires (5-10 items), much faster to fill, were built by retaining only those items that best correlate with the results of the full instruments [23], [24] (Table 1 shows the BFI-10, the short version of the BFI).”
• Public opinion on automated driving: results of an international questionnaire among 5000 respondents (2015, methodology): “would be able to drive on public roads by 2030 (median response), which is in agreement with the findings presented by Underwood (2014) and De Winter et al.”
• Evaluating Training Programs: Development and Correlates of the Questionnaire for Professional Training Evaluation (2013, methodology): “Questionnaires with only two items per dimension have shown promising psychometric properties, as successfully demonstrated in personality research (e.g. Rammstedt, 2007; Rammstedt & John, 2007).”
• The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale (2016, methodology): “Next, we analyzed the correlations between the participants’ scores in each of the Hex-ad user types with their scores on each Big Five personality trait as measured by the BFI-10 [38].”
• The preference for experiences over possessions: Measurement and construct validation of the Experiential Buying Tendency Scale (2012, methodology): “Sample 7 was recruited to provide informant reports as an alternative method for establishing construct validity (Rammstedt & John, 2007).”
• Emotion Regulation of Others and Self (EROS): The Development and Validation of a New Individual Difference Measure (2011, methodology): “This pattern of findings is in line with recent research by Riediger et al. (2009), which shows that although strategies used to worsen affect are not used very often they do have important consequences, and more broadly fits with the theory that bad is stronger than good (Baumeister et al.”
• The ‘Short Five’ (S5): Measuring Personality Traits Using Comprehensive Single Items (2012, methodology): “…assessment, examples of this trend are the single-item selfesteem scale (Robins, Hendin, & Trzesniewski, 2001), single-item ability ratings (Rammstedt & Rammsayer, 2002), and five- and ten-item Big Five personality measures (Denissen, Geenen, Selfhout, &Van Aken, 2008; Rammstedt & John, 2007).”