Measuring single constructs by single items: Constructing an even shorter version of the "Short Five" personality inventory.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to construct a short, 30-item personality questionnaire that would be, in terms of content and meaning of the scores, as comparable as possible with longer, well-established inventories such as NEO PI-R and its clones. To do this, we shortened the formerly constructed 60-item "Short Five" (S5) by half so that each subscale would be represented by a single item. We compared all possibilities of selecting 30 items (preserving balanced keying within each domain of the five-factor model) in terms of correlations with well-established scales, self-peer correlations, and clarity of meaning, and selected an optimal combination for each domain. The resulting shortened questionnaire, XS5, was compared to the original S5 using data from student samples in 6 different countr

SUBMITTER: Konstabel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5553894 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature