What it measures
The Leader Profile follows the Big Five, which describes personality in five broad domains. The full test splits each domain into 6 facets.
The quick test measures the five domains only, under the Mini-IPIP's own names: Intellect or imagination, Conscientiousness, Surgency or extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
What the questions look like
Each question is a short statement. You say how accurately it describes you as you are now, not as you wish to be.
- The quick test asks 4 statements for each domain. The full test asks 4 for each facet.
- Some statements count the other way, as the published key sets: agreeing with them lowers the trait. In the full test, 55 of the 120 do.
- The statements are the source's, word for word, so they keep its American spelling and short fragments.
- Your answers stay on this device until you finish. Only the result is kept, and only if you keep it.
How accurately does this describe you?
Am the life of the party.
How the result reads
- Each trait is placed lower, middle or higher on the answer scale. An average answer below 2.33 is lower, above 3.67 is higher, and the rest is middle.
- No norm group is used yet. The band shows where your answers sit on the scale, not how you compare with other people.
- You see your own position marked on each trait. A group sees only the band, and only at the level you share.
- A trait describes you. It is never good or bad.
Private by default
You choose what each of your groups sees: nothing, the five domains, or the domains and facets. A retake resets sharing to nothing.
Development only. Never used for selection, promotion or performance evaluation.
See how it looks in the appResearch-based, not yet validated
Questions from the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org), in the public domain: the Mini-IPIP and the IPIP-NEO-120.
Sources
- 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, 192-203.
- Johnson, J. A. (2014). Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory: Development of the IPIP-NEO-120. Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 78-89.