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Ten-Item Personality Inventory

TIPIBrief assessment of the Big Five personality dimensions — Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness to Experience — using paired trait descriptors. Designed for contexts where administration time is severely constrained and a full Big Five measure is not feasible.

10 items 2003 α 0.40–0.73 Free Gosling, S.D., Rentfrow, P.J. & Swann Jr., W.B.

What it measures

The TIPI is the recommended 10-item version of the Big Five personality measure (a 5-item FIPI version also exists but has inferior psychometrics). Each of the five Big Five dimensions is measured with two items — one positively and one reverse-scored. Convergence with the 44-item BFI ranged from 0.65 (Openness) to 0.87 (Extraversion). Alpha is intentionally low given two items per dimension — test-retest reliability (0.62–0.77) is the more appropriate reliability indicator. Recommended when survey length prohibits use of the BFI or NEO-PI-R.

Representative items

Extraverted, enthusiastic (Extraversion)
Critical, quarrelsome (Agreeableness — R)
Dependable, self-disciplined (Conscientiousness)
Anxious, easily upset (Emotional Stability — R)
Open to new experiences, complex (Openness)

Citation

Gosling, S.D., Rentfrow, P.J., & Swann Jr., W.B. (2003). A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(6), 504–528.

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