Ever wonder what your personality is like?
Psychologists have long wondered that too. For decades now have offered a bewildering array of theories, research, and tests that purport to measure this thing we call “personality.”
Enter “the Big Five” personality dimensions. Rather than present personality from a particular psychological theoretical perspective, the Big Five personality traits were derived from how people use everyday words to describe themselves and others.
And now we have a simple 50-question personality test you can use here on Psych Central to determine your rating along these 5 traits. It takes most people about 5 to 7 minutes to complete, and as with all the quizzes and tests here on Psych Central, provides instant (and always free!) results.
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Just as I fool people in real life into thinking I’m an extravert instead of an introvert, I fooled this test. Behaving a certain way doesn’t mean that you’re comfortable behaving that way. I’m fairly good at making others feel comfortable, but that doesn’t mean I’m comfortable interacting with other people. I’ve even had people tell me that I’m the “life of the party” but I hate parties and avoid them. So this test wasn’t accurate for me–just for the visible me.
It doesn’t make sense to take a test according to the visible you and want it to be true for the true you. It is easy to “fool” a test like this. Just give answers that aren’t accurate. A valid test measures what it is supposed to measure, and it spits out that measurement according to the data that are put into it. A valid test can’t make conclusions about one thing when the data described something else.
Indeed, if you’re not looking for an honest answer and don’t answer questions in an honest manner, then nobody’s going to be able to help you much (if help or insight are what you’re after) — both online (with a test like this) and in real life.
I am a psychologist…I took the test honestly and found it to be very accurate, so the scaling is done well too. Thanks, that was helpful…
Nice test, but why not use the more accurate six factor “HEXACO” model of personality?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEXACO_model_of_personality_structure