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Big Five Personality

Where do I sit on the five broad dimensions of personality — and their ten aspects?

One hundred short statements from the Big Five Aspect Scales, describing you on the five broad dimensions of personality and the two aspects within each.

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100 statements · About 12 minutesOur estimate

Validated Instrument

What it looks at

Five broad dimensions of personality, each split into two more specific aspects:

  • Neuroticism: Volatility and WithdrawalHow easily irritation, worry, doubt and discouragement come up, and how strongly they’re felt. It is a normal dimension of personality that everyone has to some degree — a result here is not a diagnosis.
  • Agreeableness: Compassion and PolitenessHow much you tune in to other people’s feelings and needs, and how much you avoid pushing, pressuring or clashing with them.
  • Conscientiousness: Industriousness and OrderlinessHow much you follow through on plans and get things done, and how much you like order, routine and details taken care of.
  • Extraversion: Enthusiasm and AssertivenessHow quickly you warm up to people and show enthusiasm, and how much you take charge and speak up. It is close to what people mean by introvert and extravert — but here it is a matter of degree on two aspects, not a type.
  • Openness/Intellect: Intellect and OpennessHow drawn you are to complex ideas and new information, and to beauty, art, imagination and reflection. It describes how you engage with ideas, not how intelligent you are.

What it does not measure

  • It is not a personality type or a label. Your profile is five dimensions and ten aspects, each on its own line.
  • It doesn’t compare you with other people. There are no percentiles here, and the middle of a line is not “average”.
  • Neither end of any line is better. Each end comes with its own strengths and costs.
  • Intellect describes how you engage with ideas, not intelligence.
  • Neuroticism is a normal personality dimension. A result here is not a diagnosis of anything.
  • It doesn’t predict your future or fix who you are. It describes how you see yourself now.
  • It is broad personality, not a specific pattern: People-Pleasing & Speaking Up, Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion look at narrower things separately.

What you’ll see

You’ll see your profile at a glance — five lines, each with its two aspects marked — then each dimension and aspect described in plain language, with what leaning either way can look like. There are no percentiles, types or comparisons with other people, and the totals are never combined.

Evidence and research basis

Validated Instrument

A published questionnaire whose reliability and validity have been studied by researchers, used here with its items, response format and scoring unchanged. Infeee did not create or validate it.

How Infeee labels evidence

Validated instrument: the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS), used unchanged.

The 100 statements, their keying and their scoring are the Big Five Aspect Scales, as published in the International Personality Item Pool. The scale was built and validated by other researchers; Infeee did not create or validate it. The descriptions and reflection prompts on this page are Infeee’s and are not part of the instrument.

This is self-report: it reflects how you see and describe yourself today, which mood and circumstances can influence.

Totals on different lines measure different things, so they can’t be compared with each other.

Every score carries some measurement error. Ten statements per aspect are more dependable than any single statement, but small differences between totals don’t mean much.

Infeee shows no norms or percentiles. Comparing you with other people would need verified normative data, and this result doesn’t use any.

Sources (4)
  1. DeYoung, C. G., Quilty, L. C., & Peterson, J. B. (2007). Between facets and domains: 10 aspects of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(5), 880–896.The study that identified the ten aspects and built and validated the Big Five Aspect Scales.
  2. International Personality Item Pool. The items in the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS scoring key).The statements, their keying and the reported reliabilities used here.
  3. Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84–96.Background on the public-domain item pool the BFAS is drawn from.
  4. International Personality Item Pool. Obtaining permission.IPIP items, scales and inventories are in the public domain, for commercial and non-commercial use.

About this topic

In the research behind this scale, each of the Big Five domains split into two distinct but correlated aspects — a level of personality between the five broad domains and narrower facets.

The 100-item scale was built from International Personality Item Pool statements and validated in a second sample of 480 people.

The IPIP site reports internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of .75 to .85 for the ten aspect scales and .84 to .89 for the five domain scales.

Sources (2)
  1. DeYoung, C. G., Quilty, L. C., & Peterson, J. B. (2007). Between facets and domains: 10 aspects of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(5), 880–896.
  2. International Personality Item Pool. The items in the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS scoring key).

Your privacy

Your answers are processed in your browser and aren’t saved — not on this device and not on our servers.

When you finish, you can choose to add the result to your Pattern Map. It’s saved only in this browser on this device, and you can remove it at any time.

Before you start

100 short statements · about 12 minutes. This is a self-reflection tool, not a diagnosis. Your answers stay on this device.

Instructions

Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of roughly your same age. For each statement, choose whether it is very inaccurate, moderately inaccurate, neither accurate nor inaccurate, moderately accurate, or very accurate as a description of you.

Every statement needs an answer before your profile can be calculated. You can go back to change an answer, or stop at any time — nothing is saved along the way.

This is a reflection tool, not a diagnosis. If you feel unsafe or need urgent help, contact your local emergency or crisis support service.

Ready when you are.

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