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Big Five personality test

Twenty short statements, about three minutes. Everything runs in your browser, so your answers are never sent to us.

Describe yourself as you generally are now

Not as you wish to be. For each statement, choose how accurately it describes you. There are no right or wrong answers.

  1. 1Am the life of the party.
  2. 2Sympathize with others' feelings.
  3. 3Get chores done right away.
  4. 4Have frequent mood swings.
  5. 5Have a vivid imagination.
  6. 6Don't talk a lot.
  7. 7Am not interested in other people's problems.
  8. 8Often forget to put things back in their proper place.
  9. 9Am relaxed most of the time.
  10. 10Am not interested in abstract ideas.
  11. 11Talk to a lot of different people at parties.
  12. 12Feel others' emotions.
  13. 13Like order.
  14. 14Get upset easily.
  15. 15Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas.
  16. 16Keep in the background.
  17. 17Am not really interested in others.
  18. 18Make a mess of things.
  19. 19Seldom feel blue.
  20. 20Do not have a good imagination.

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About this test

What is the Big Five?
The Big Five is the trait model most widely used in personality research. It describes personality along five continuous dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and emotional stability.
Where do the questions come from?
They are the Mini-IPIP, a 20-item inventory published by Donnellan, Oswald, Baird and Lucas in 2006 and drawn from the public domain International Personality Item Pool. It was designed as a short measure that still tracks the longer questionnaires it came from.
How are my scores calculated?
Each trait has four statements. Some are worded in reverse, such as "Don't talk a lot" for extraversion, so those answers are flipped before averaging. Your score for each trait is the average of its four answers, from 1 to 5. Emotional stability is reported as the opposite of the inventory's neuroticism scale.
Are my answers stored?
No. The test runs entirely in your browser. Your answers are not sent to Tejesha or anyone else, and they are gone when you leave the page.
How is this different from what Tejesha does?
This test asks you to describe yourself. Tejesha's product estimates the same five traits from what a person has written publicly, and shows how confident it is in each estimate.
Can this test be used for hiring?
No. Short self-report tests like this one are for personal insight and learning, not for decisions about people.

Source: Donnellan, M. B., Oswald, F. L., Baird, B. M., & Lucas, R. E. (2006). The Mini-IPIP scales: Tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five factors of personality. Psychological Assessment, 18(2), 192-203. Items from the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org), which is in the public domain.

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