NEO-Five Factor Inventory, Short Form (NEO) - Subject Follow-up
This measure appears in the following time-points: Follow24.
Related Construct
Description of Measure
The NEO-PI-SF (Costa P. & McCrae, R. 1989; McCrae, R. & Costa, P. 2004) is a widely used personality inventory to tap the "Big 5" dimensions of personality (i.e., neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness). It provides an assessment of emotional, interpersonal, experiential, attitudinal and motivational personality styles. The NEO is a self-report measure in which the participant rates the degree to which he/she thinks the statement is true about themselves (e.g. I shy away from crowds of people) on a 5 point Likert scale (1=disagree strongly to 5=agree strongly). This short form contains 120 items, making it useful for calculating dimension scores (of the five dimensions listed above), but not reliable enough to produce all facet scores (more fine-grained component scores that can be combined into dimension scores).
The NEO is administered only one time for the Pathways study, at the 24-month interview.
A score is computed for each of the five primary domains:
- Neuroticism [S4NTOT]; mean of items 13, 30, 45, 81, 17, 83, 100, 113, 5, 33, 67, 25, 56, 89, 107; 11 items required to compute the mean. Cronbach's alpha (baseline): .68
- Extraversion [S4ETOT]; mean of items: 11, 27, 42, 60, 1, 14, 96, 111, 51, 103, 116, 22, 36, 71, 87, 39, 57, 90, 120; 14 items required to compute the mean. Cronbach's alpha (baseline): .74
- Openness to experience [S4OTOT], mean of 28, 43, 61, 46, 97, 112, 7, 23, 55, 88; 7 items required to compute the mean. Cronbach's alpha (baseline): .59
- Agreeableness [S4ATOT]; 12, 44, 79, 94, 15, 82, 98, 50, 65, 101, 115, 52, 85, 105; 11 items required to compute the mean. Cronbach's alpha (baseline): .62
- Conscientiousness [S4CTOT]; 66, 102, 20, 53, 86, 106, 8, 38, 73, 119, 10, 41, 76; 11 items required to compute the mean. Cronbach's alpha (baseline): .85
Data Issues
120 items are administered to study participants but only 80 items are used in the scores available. Only a limited number of NEO facets are used. Those excluded did not have an acceptable alpha. Investigators should limit analysis to the use of the five primary domains for which we have scores available; facet-level analysis should not be completed.
References
- Costa, P. T., & McCrae R.R. (1992). Professional manual: Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
- Reise, S. & Henson, J. (2000). Computerization and Adaptive Administration of the NEO PI-R Assessment, 7, 347-364.
- Miller, J.D., Lynam, D.R., Rolland, J.P., De Fruyt, F., Reynolds, S.K., Pham-Scottez, A., Baker, S.R., & Bagby, R.M. (under review, 2006). Scoring the Five-Factor Model personality disorders: Development and validation of normative scores for North American, French and Dutch-Flemish samples.