The Five-Factor Personality Inventory (FFPI)

The Five-Factor Personality Inventory (FFPI) assesses the Big Five factors of personality, both for self-ratings and for others' ratings. It consists of 100 brief and concrete statements, and can be administered in 10-15 min. in addition to the five factor scores, the FFPI may be used to assess 40 b ipolar facet scores that arise as blends of the Big Five, for the purpose o f communicating more specific information about an individual's position in the five-space (applied settings). In the normal population, the five fact or scores appear to be internally consistent, stable and valid. As regards specific (e.g. clinical) populations, still further study is needed. The it em pool for the FFPI was constructed interactively in Dutch, English and Ge rman versions, and proved to be relatively easy to translate into Still oth er languages. Presently also available are the Brazilian, Chinese, Croatian , Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese. Polish, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish versions. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.