ASSESSMENT OF THE 5-FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY

The five-factor model (FFM) of personality is obtaining construct vali dation, recognition, and practical consideration across a broad domain of fields, including clinical psychology, industrial-organizational p sychology, and health psychology. As a result, an array of instruments have been developed and existing instruments are being modified to as sess the FFM. In this article, we present an overview and critique of five such instruments (the Goldberg Big Five Markers, the revised NEO Personality inventory, the Interpersonal Adjective Scales-Big Five, th e Personality Psychopathology-Five, and the Hogan Personality Inventor y), focusing in particular on their representation of the lexical FFM and their practical application.