Big Five Personality Test
A short Big Five personality test: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and emotional stability. 20 questions adapted from the public-domain IPIP, with a plain explanation of each result.
Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be. Compare yourself with other people you know of your age. It takes about 3 minutes, and your answers stay on this device.
About the Big Five
The Big Five is the personality model psychologists use most. It describes personality with five broad traits, each a scale from low to high, rather than putting people into boxes:
- Openness: imagination and curiosity about ideas.
- Conscientiousness: organisation, self-discipline and reliability.
- Extraversion: sociability and energy around people.
- Agreeableness: kindness, warmth and cooperation.
- Emotional stability: staying calm and steady under stress (its opposite is called neuroticism).
Neither end of a trait is "good" or "bad": each has strengths. This short version gives a rough picture only; it isn't a clinical or professional assessment. The statements are adapted from the Mini-IPIP (Donnellan and others, 2006), drawn from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool.
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