Hello all!
I am currently working on my undergraduate dissertation project which uses the BFI scale to assess personality traits in students.
Would an expert in this field please be able to let me know if I am doing my scoring correctly (I am doing this manually without SPSS for now).
I have currently reversed the items as listed on the original BFI eg. Extraversion: 1, 6R, 11, 16, 21R, 26, 31R, 36.
I will then add these up for each participant eg. Extraversion: 5, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4 = 30
Is the next step to average this total?? eg. 30 / 8 = 3.75
Thankyou
To score the BFI, youll first need to reverse-score all negatively-keyed items:
Extraversion: 6, 21, 31
Agreeableness: 2, 12, 27, 37
Conscientiousness: 8, 18, 23, 43
Neuroticism: 9, 24, 34
Openness: 35, 41
To recode these items, you should subtract your score for all reverse-scored items from 6. For example, if you gave yourself a 5, compute 6 minus 5 and your recoded score is 1. That is, a score of 1 becomes 5, 2 becomes 4, 3 remains 3, 4 becomes 2, and 5 becomes 1.
Next, you will create scale scores by averaging the following items for each B5 domain (where R indicates using the reverse-scored item).
Extraversion: 1, 6R 11, 16, 21R, 26, 31R, 36
Agreeableness: 2R, 7, 12R, 17, 22, 27R, 32, 37R, 42
Conscientiousness: 3, 8R, 13, 18R, 23R, 28, 33, 38, 43R
Neuroticism: 4, 9R, 14, 19, 24R, 29, 34R, 39
Openness: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35R, 40, 41R, 44
I hope this will help you.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiGtPWYlNz1AhU-H7cAHbqmCMoQFnoECCcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fosf.io%2F38afd%2Fwiki&usg=AOvVaw0WmiKO9eeWvrjyNTqObPYo
( BIG FIVE INVENTORY SCALE ).
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