Covert reactions to big five personality traits: The impact message inventory and the NEO-PI-R

Participants (n = 168) rated acquaintances' personality using the NEO Perso nality Inventory - Revised (NEO-PI-R; Peer Rating Form) and the Impact Mess age Inventory (IMI) to examine the relationship between the interpersonal c ircumplex and Big Five models of personality. Results support the predicted finding that the NEO scales of Extraversion and Agreeableness load most st rongly on the circumplex regions of Friendly-Dominance and Friendly-Submiss iveness, respectively. Unexpectedly, the NEO domains of Neuroticism, Consci entiousness and Openness (to a lesser extent) also show projections onto ci rcular structure.