The Next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and Assessing a Hierarchical Model With 15 Facets to Enhance Bandwidth, Fidelity, and Predictive Power

By C. Soto, Oliver P. John. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2017

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Three studies were conducted to develop and validate the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2), a major revision of the Big Five Inventory (BFI). Study 1 specified a hierarchical model of personality structure with 15 facet traits nested within the Big Five domains, and developed a preliminary item pool to measure this structure. Study 2 used conceptual and empirical criteria to construct the BFI-2 domain and facet scales from the preliminary item pool. Study 3 used data from 2 validation samples to evaluate the BFI-2’s measurement properties and substantive relations with self-reported and peer-reported criteria. The results of these studies indicate that the BFI-2 is a reliable and valid personality measure, and an important advance over the original BFI. Specifically, the BFI-2 introduces a robust hierarchical structure, controls for individual differences in acquiescent responding, and provides greater bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power than the original BFI, while still retaining the original measure’s conceptual focus, brevity, and ease of understanding. The BFI-2 therefore offers valuable new opportunities for research examining the structure, assessment, development, and life outcomes of personality traits.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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Social and emotional skills for student success and well-being: Conceptual framework for the OECD study on social and emotional skills (2018, background): “The authors then selected two complementary facets that “were prominent in the personality literature and represented in the original BFI’s item content” to “provide continuity with the original BFI and previous research on personality structure” (Soto and John, 2017[20]).”
Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures (2020, background): “For example, the BFI-2 (Soto & John, 2017) contains items such as ‘Tends to be disorganized’ (reverse coded), ‘Tends to be lazy’ (reverse coded), or ‘Is dependable, steady’ (Soto & John, 2017, p. 142).”
How personality and policy predict pandemic behavior: Understanding sheltering-in-place in 55 countries at the onset of COVID-19. (2020, methodology): “Personality was assessed through the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003), a widely established, parsimonious short measure of the five-factor model of personality (Digman, 1990; John & Srivastava, 1999; McCrae & Costa, 2010; Soto & John, 2017).”
LibRA (2019, neutral): “We obtained the participants’ big-five personality traits, as assessed by the Big Five Inventory (BFI-2) scale [138, 142], and executive function, especially their fluid and crystallized intelligence, as assessed by the Shipley scale [23, 129, 133].”
Objections to the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure—and why those Objections Fail (2020, methodology): “…of Big Five Agreeableness—such as those of the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John, Donahue, & Kentle, 1991) and the Next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2; Soto & John, 2017)—don’t actually include any Honesty-Humility content and don’t actually correlate much with Honesty-Humility (see, e.g. Ashton &…”
Assessment framework of the OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills (2019, background): “[100] Soto, C. and O. John (2017), “The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power”, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 113/1, pp. 117-143.”
Response Speed and Response Consistency as Mutually Validating Indicators of Data Quality in Online Samples (2017, methodology): “The BFI-2 is a 60-item instrument designed to measure 15 personality dimensions by items consisting of short statements (e.g., “Is polite, courteous to others”) on a disagree strongly¼ 1 to agree strongly¼ 5 response scale (Soto & John, 2016).”
Successful Explanations Start with Accurate Descriptions: Questionnaire Items as Personality Markers for More Accurate Predictions (2018, background): “Although personality facets (e.g. McCrae & Costa, 2010; Soto & John, 2017) can be useful for this, recent work suggests that even single-personality questionnaire items contain unique information that may be lost in aggregation (e.g. Mõttus, Kandler, Bleidorn, Riemann, & McCrae, 2017; Mõttus et…”
Describing Populations and Samples in Doctoral Student Research (2021, background): “…psychological constructs, such as personality traits, selecting, describing, and examining broad populations seem naturally appropriate, such as Soto and John (2017), whose updated Big Five Inventory (BFI-2) was tested (N = 1,137) to measure personality traits and facets for Western,…”
The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria (2021, methodology): “In a large-scale metasynthesis across meta-analyses, for instance, Strickhouser et al. (2017) found especially Big Five Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and (low) Neuroticism to be associated with better overall health as well as better mental health and health behaviors as more narrow criteria.”
Validation of the Short and Extra-Short Forms of the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) and Their German Adaptations (2020, methodology): “Soto and John (2017b) validated the two short forms of the BFI-2 using a university student sample and a more extensive and heterogeneous Internet sample.”
Self-Actualizing People in the 21st Century: Integration With Contemporary Theory and Research on Personality and Well-Being (2018, background): “The Big Five Inventory–2 (BFI-2; Soto & John, 2017) is a 60-item scale that measures three facets for each Big Five domain of personality: Extraversion (α = .85), Agreeableness (α = .86), Conscientiousness (α = .89), Neuroticism (α = .92), and Openness to Experience (α = .88).”
Who Is Impacted? Personality Predicts Individual Differences in Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany (2020, methodology): “All items were self-report versions. a Based on the BFI-2-S (Big Five Inventory-2 Short Form; Soto & John, 2017b).”