Hello! I'm wondering if anyone can help me. For my masters dissertation, I am looking how personality, particularly extraversion and introversion, may impact on responses to several communicative reactions in the current COVID-19 pandemic responses. I am a student and therefore it is difficult, if not impossible, to get hold of well established and recommended scales such as the NEO PI R, the MBTI, EPI and EPQ. The only scale that I have been able to access is the Big Five Inventory. I cannot locate or gain access to the original paper for the BFI in order to determine whether the extraversion scale measures high versus low extraversion, and whether the scale measures introversion (I.e whether the reversed items measure introversion or whether low scores on the non-reversed items reflect introversion). I have been unable to find the answer to this within other research, though I have found one paper that measured introversion using the BFI.
So - does anyone know if the BFI does measure introversion as well as extraversion? Or know anywhere that I can access the original paper for the BFI so that I can investigate myself? Alternatively, could anyone recommend an alternative scale that I could use that is freely available?
Thank you in advance!
Hello Taylor,
here is a link of a site which I found to be fairly reliable. Please go through and decide if helpful.
https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/personality-tests/
Please check the following articles:
Chapter How to Measure the Personality
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-43492-001?doi=1
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1927-02408-001
Article The Costs of Hiding and Faking Emotions: The Case of Extrave...
The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) measures two pervasive, independent dimensions of personality, Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism-Stability, which account for most of the variance in the personality domain. Each form contains 57 “Yes-No” items with no repetition of items. The inclusion of a falsification scale provides for the detection of response distortion. The traits measured are Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism. When you fill out Eysenck’s Personality Inventory (EPI) you get three scores.
The ‘lie score’ is out of 9. It measures how socially desirable you are trying to be in your answers. Those who score 5 or more on this scale are probably trying to make themselves look good and are not being totally honest in their responses.
The ‘E score’ is out of 24 and measures how much of an extrovert you are.
The ‘N score’ is out of 24 and measures how neurotic you are.
To interpret the scores, your E score and your N score are plotted on a graph from which you can read your personality characteristics. The nearer the outside of the circle you are, the more marked are the personality traits. Please note that the EPI is a very simplistic type of personality measurement scale, so if you have come out as a personality that does not match what you thought before you took the test, you are probably right and the test is probably wrong!
Instructions
Here are some questions regarding the way you behave, feel and act. Each question has radio buttons to answer YES or NO. Try to decide whether YES or NO represents your usual way of acting or feeling. Then check those radio named YES or NO. Work quickly, and don’t spend too much time over any question, we want your first reaction, not a long drawn-out thought process. The whole questionnaire shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. Be sure not to omit any questions. Start now, work quickly and remember to answer every question. There are no right or wrong answers, and this isn’t a test of intelligence or ability, but simply a measure of the way you behave.
This test is a demonstration of psychological tests plugin.
1. Do you often long for excitement?
Yes
No
2. Do you often need understanding friends to cheer you up?
Yes
No
3. Are you usually carefree?
Yes
No
4. Do you find it very hard to take no for an answer?
Yes
No
5. Do you stop and think things over before doing anything?
Yes
No
6. If you say you will do something do you always keep your promise, no matter how inconvenient it might be to do so?
Yes
No
7. Do your moods go up and down?
Yes
No
8. Do you generally do and say things quickly without stopping to think?
Yes
No
9. Do you ever feel ‘just miserable’ for no good reason?
Yes
No
10. Would you do almost anything for a dare?
Yes
No
11. Do you suddenly feel shy when you want to talk to an attractive stranger?
Yes
No
12. Once in a while do you lose your temper and get angry?
Yes
No
13. Do you often do things on the spur of the moment?
Yes
No
14. Do you often worry about things you should have done or said?
Yes
No
15. Generally do you prefer reading to meeting people?
Yes
No
16. Are your feelings rather easily hurt?
Yes
No
17. Do you like going out a lot?
Yes
No
18. Do you occasionally have thoughts and ideas that you would not like other people to know about?
Yes
No
19. Are you sometimes bubbling over with energy and sometimes very sluggish?
Yes
No
20. Do you prefer to have few but special friends?
Yes
No
21. Do you daydream a lot?
Yes
No
22. When people shout at you do you shout back?
Yes
No
23. Are you often troubled about feelings of guilt?
Yes
No
24. Are all your habits good and desirable ones?
Yes
No
25. Can you usually let yourself go and enjoy yourself a lot at a lively party?
Yes
No
26. Would you call yourself tense or ‘highly strung’?
Yes
No
27. Do other people think of you as being very lively?
Yes
No
28. After you have done something important, do you come away feelingyou could have done better?
Yes
No
29. Are you mostly quiet when you are with other people?
Yes
No
30. Do you sometimes gossip?
Yes
No
31. Do ideas run through your head so that you cannot sleep?
Yes
No
32. If there is something you want to know about, would you rather look it up in a book than talk to someone about it?
Yes
No
33. Do you get palpitations or thumping in your hear?
Yes
No
34. Do you like the kind of work that you need to pay close attention to?
Yes
No
35. Do you get attacks of shaking or trembling?
Yes
No
36. Would you always declare everything at customs, even if you knew you could never be found out?
Yes
No
37. Do you hate being with a crowd who play jokes on one another?
Yes
No
38. Are you an irritable person?
Yes
No
39. Do you like doing things in which you have to act quickly?
Yes
No
40. Do you worry about awful things that might happen?
Yes
No
41. Are you slow and unhurried in the way you move?
Yes
No
42. Have you ever been late for an appointment or work?
Yes
No
43. Do you have many nightmares?
Yes
No
44. Do you like talking to people so much that you never miss a chance of talking to a stranger?
Yes
No
45. Are you troubled by aches and pains?
Yes
No
46. Would you be very unhappy if you could not see lots of people most of the time?
Yes
No
47. Would you call yourself a nervous person?
Yes
No
48. Of all the people you know, are there some whom you definitely do not like?
Yes
No
49. Would you say that you were fairly self-confident?
Yes
No
50. Are you easily hurt when people find fault with you or your work?
Yes
No
51. Do you find it hard to really enjoy yourself at a lively party?
Yes
No
52. Are you troubled by feelings of inferiority?
Yes
No
53. Can you easily get some life into a dull party?
Yes
No
54. Do you sometimes talk about things you know nothing about?
Yes
No
55. Do you worry about your health?
Yes
No
56. Do you like playing pranks on others?
Yes
No
57. Do you suffer from sleeplessness?
Yes
No
I hope that this helps.
Rimsha Khalid Hi, thank you so much for your help! I ended up using the BFI as I was able to fully access the measure along with scoring instructions with full permission to use it.
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