BFI-10

Over the years personality tests got shorter and shorter to meet the expectations of the test users while also aiming to uphold to the methodological standards. Here we would like to present some of the psychometric properties of the ten-item version of the Big Five Inventory (Rammstedt & John, 2007) as a subset of the original Big Five Inventory which contained 44 items. The data come from the Divorce in Flanders study where the validated Dutch language version of the BFI (Denissen et al., 2008) was used. The sample consists of a full sample of 7533 not-unrelated respondents coming from 4460 families and a subset of 4457 uncorrelated adult respondents. Principal component analysis shows the presence of the Big Five factor structure with very high primary loadings for most items. However, one of the Agreeableness items loads exclusively on the Extraversion factor and other measures are also not entirely convincing. Despite this, the BFI-10 correlates well with the BFI-44. Therefore, more research is needed before the reliability of the test can be definitively concluded.status: publishe