About the test
Big Five Aspects test
Each Big Five trait split in two: compassion and politeness, industriousness and orderliness, and more. 100 public-domain statements give you ten aspects.
- 100 questions
- About 12 min
Questionnaire / instrument: Big Five Aspects Scales (BFAS)
What does it measure?
Five broad personality traits and ten aspects, two within each trait. For example, extraversion is separated into enthusiasm and assertiveness, while conscientiousness includes industriousness and orderliness.
Where does it come from?
The Big Five Aspects Scales (BFAS) were developed by Colin DeYoung, Lena Quilty and Jordan Peterson and published in 2007. The item set and scoring keys are available through IPIP.
How is the result calculated?
Ten items contribute to each aspect. The two aspects within a trait are combined for the broader profile. Reverse-keyed answers are adjusted; the displayed 0–100 scale is a rescaling of responses, not a percentile.
What can the result tell you?
Aspects provide a different level of detail from the 30 facets in IPIP-NEO. They are not interchangeable subscales. This site does not use population norms for the BFAS profile.
Languages and adaptations
Some item translations are reused from our existing IPIP banks; other wording was translated for this site with AI assistance. Translation does not by itself establish that a scale has the same measurement properties in another language.
License and reuse
Public domainIPIP places its items and scales in the public domain. They may be used, copied, adapted and translated for commercial and non-commercial purposes without a fee or separate permission.
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Sources and further reading
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, 880-896.