Table of Contents

Big Five factor assessment - introduction. Assessment methodology: assessing the Big Five - applications of 10 psychometric criteria to the development of marker scales. Big Five inventories and questionnaires: validity and utility of the revised NEO personality inventory - examples from Europe; the five-factor personality inventory - assessing the Big Five by means of brief and concrete statements; studies of the Big Five questionnaire; assessing children's traits with the hierarchical Personality inventory for children; the Structured Interview for the Five Factor Model of Personality (SIFFM); the nonverbal assessment of personality - the NPQ and the FF-NPQ; the Global Personality Inventory (GPI); the Traits Personality Questionnaire (TPQue). Big Five adjective scales: the Interpersonal Adjective Scales - Big Five Version (IASR-B5); the Big Five Marker Scales (BFMS) and the Italian AB5C taxonomy - analyses from the eticemic perspective; Japanese adjective list for the Big Five. Big Five associated instruments: the Hogan personality inventory; the six factor personality questionnaire; Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) - an alternative five-factorial model; second-order factor structure of the Cattel Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire; a "Big Five" scoring system for the adjective check list; the MMPI-2 personality psychophatology-five (PSY-5) scales and the Five Factor Model; the professional personality questionnaire.