Big Five Personality Self-Assessment

A compact IPIP-based self-assessment of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional sensitivity and openness – with a personal radar profile.

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Big Five Personality Self-Assessment – questionnaire preview

The Big Five, often called OCEAN, describe personality across five broad dimensions rather than rigid types. This compact template uses 20 freely reusable statements from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), four per dimension. The result is a personal radar profile without an artificial total: personality has no universally better or worse score. The template suits reflection, coaching and workshops; scientific or consequential assessment should use longer validated instruments.

When should you use this template?

This template is a great fit for:

  • As an accessible self-assessment for coaching or personal development
  • As a conversation starter in team and communication workshops
  • As a demo of multidimensional scoring, reverse items and radar results

Every question in this template

  1. 1

    How accurately do these statements describe you? *

    Answer spontaneously with your typical behaviour in mind.

    Matrix
    Very inaccurateModerately inaccurateNeither accurate nor inaccurateModerately accurateVery accurate
    I am the life of the party.
    I don't talk a lot.
    I talk to a lot of different people at parties.
    I keep in the background.
    I sympathize with others' feelings.
  2. 2

    What observation from your profile would you like to note? (optional)

    Long text

From questionnaire to dashboard

The template creates five instantly analysable dimension scores:

  • Big Five radar: All five dimensions as an individual profile from 0 to 100.
  • Dimension comparison: Means by group or survey wave, without ranking individuals.
  • Profile distributions: Distributions show diversity better than a single mean.

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Frequently asked questions

Are the items free to use?
Yes. The statements come from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), whose items are public domain. The German wording in this compact template is not a separately validated normed scale.
Why is there no total score?
The five dimensions describe different tendencies. Summing them would have no meaningful interpretation and would falsely suggest a personality ranking.

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