An insightful journey into personality
Instructions for Completing the IPIP-NEO Short Form
The following pages contain phrases describing people's behaviors. Please use the rating scale next to each phrase to describe how accurately each statement describes you. Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. So that you can describe yourself in an honest manner, your responses will be kept in absolute confidence. Please read each statement carefully, and then click the circle that corresponds to the accuracy of the statement.
Answer every item. Failing to answer items will return an invalid narrative report. Note that the answer circles appear directly to the right of each question. Please make sure that the circle you are choosing corresponds to the question you are considering. If you make a mistake or change your mind, simply click the circle you wish to choose. After you have answered the first 60 of the 120 total items, press the send button. at the bottom of this page. This will send your responses to the scoring program and take you to a page with the next 60 questions. After you complete this second page of 60 questions, pressing the send button will return an interpretive report to you.