psychTools (version 2.3.3)

bfi: 25 Personality items representing 5 factors

Description

25 personality self report items taken from the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org) were included as part of the Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment (SAPA) web based personality assessment project. The data from 2800 subjects are included here as a demonstration set for scale construction, factor analysis, and Item Response Theory analysis. Three additional demographic variables (sex, education, and age) are also included.

Usage

data(bfi)
data(bfi.dictionary)

Format

A data frame with 2800 observations on the following 28 variables. (The q numbers are the SAPA item numbers).

A1

Am indifferent to the feelings of others. (q_146)

A2

Inquire about others' well-being. (q_1162)

A3

Know how to comfort others. (q_1206)

A4

Love children. (q_1364)

A5

Make people feel at ease. (q_1419)

C1

Am exacting in my work. (q_124)

C2

Continue until everything is perfect. (q_530)

C3

Do things according to a plan. (q_619)

C4

Do things in a half-way manner. (q_626)

C5

Waste my time. (q_1949)

E1

Don't talk a lot. (q_712)

E2

Find it difficult to approach others. (q_901)

E3

Know how to captivate people. (q_1205)

E4

Make friends easily. (q_1410)

E5

Take charge. (q_1768)

N1

Get angry easily. (q_952)

N2

Get irritated easily. (q_974)

N3

Have frequent mood swings. (q_1099

N4

Often feel blue. (q_1479)

N5

Panic easily. (q_1505)

O1

Am full of ideas. (q_128)

O2

Avoid difficult reading material.(q_316)

O3

Carry the conversation to a higher level. (q_492)

O4

Spend time reflecting on things. (q_1738)

O5

Will not probe deeply into a subject. (q_1964)

gender

Males = 1, Females =2

education

1 = HS, 2 = finished HS, 3 = some college, 4 = college graduate 5 = graduate degree

age

age in years

Details

The first 25 items are organized by five putative factors: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Opennness. The scoring key is created using make.keys, the scores are found using score.items.

These five factors are a useful example of using irt.fa to do Item Response Theory based latent factor analysis of the polychoric correlation matrix. The endorsement plots for each item, as well as the item information functions reveal that the items differ in their quality.

The item data were collected using a 6 point response scale: 1 Very Inaccurate 2 Moderately Inaccurate 3 Slightly Inaccurate 4 Slightly Accurate 5 Moderately Accurate 6 Very Accurate

as part of the Synthetic Apeture Personality Assessment (SAPA https://www.sapa-project.org/) project. To see an example of the data collection technique, visit https://www.SAPA-project.org/ or the International Cognitive Ability Resource at https://icar-project.org. The items given were sampled from the International Personality Item Pool of Lewis Goldberg using the sampling technique of SAPA. This is a sample data set taken from the much larger SAPA data bank.

References

Goldberg, L.R. (1999) A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In Mervielde, I. and Deary, I. and De Fruyt, F. and Ostendorf, F. (eds) Personality psychology in Europe. 7. Tilburg University Press. Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Revelle, W., Wilt, J., and Rosenthal, A. (2010) Individual Differences in Cognition: New Methods for examining the Personality-Cognition Link In Gruszka, A. and Matthews, G. and Szymura, B. (Eds.) Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory and Executive Control, Springer.

Revelle, W, Condon, D.M., Wilt, J., French, J.A., Brown, A., and Elleman, L.G. (2016) Web and phone based data collection using planned missing designs. In Fielding, N.G., Lee, R.M. and Blank, G. (Eds). SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods (2nd Ed), Sage Publcations.

See Also

bi.bars to show the data by age and gender, irt.fa for item factor analysis applying the irt model.

Examples

data(bfi)
psych::describe(bfi)
# create the bfi.keys (actually already saved in the data file)
 bfi.keys <-
  list(agree=c("-A1","A2","A3","A4","A5"),conscientious=c("C1","C2","C3","-C4","-C5"),
extraversion=c("-E1","-E2","E3","E4","E5"),neuroticism=c("N1","N2","N3","N4","N5"),
openness = c("O1","-O2","O3","O4","-O5")) 

 scores <- psych::scoreItems(bfi.keys,bfi,min=1,max=6) #specify the minimum and maximum values
 scores
 #show the use of the keys.lookup with a dictionary
 psych::keys.lookup(bfi.keys,bfi.dictionary[,1:4])