IPIP Personality Inventory (IPIP-NEO-60) Assessment
Build a 60-item Big Five profile with reverse-keyed domain means and two-item facet clues, while keeping non-normative limits clear.{{ summaryTitle }}
Safety and support
- {{ action.label }}
Your assessment result
This result was restored from its editable response URL.
What this means
{{ interpretationArtifact ? interpretationArtifact.lead : 'No interpretation is available for this result.' }}
{{ assessmentActionPresentation.primary }}
- {{ point }}
{{ interpretationArtifact ? interpretationArtifact.uncertainty : 'This result is informational and should be interpreted within the assessment scope.' }}
Score position
Understand your scoreSee the canonical score in its declared range
- {{ domain.label.charAt(0) }} — {{ domain.label }}: {{ domain.value_text }}
- {{ domain.band }}
Facet spread {{ domain.facet_spread }} points · {{ domain.facet_read }}
Highest facet: {{ domain.top_facet }}
Lowest facet: {{ domain.low_facet }}
{{ scorePositionArtifact.summary }}
Loading score-position chart…
{{ assessmentChartExportStatus }}
Answer review
Review your answersCheck the responses behind this result
| Item | Prompt | Answer | Keyed score | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{ row.label }} Domain: {{ row.output_label }} Facet: {{ row.facet_label }} Keying: {{ row.keying === 'reverse' ? 'Reverse-keyed' : 'Direct-keyed' }} | {{ row.prompt }} | {{ row.answer }} | {{ row.score_text }} |
No answer rows are available for this result.
Save or shareOptional handoffs for this completed result
Share result
The link contains your responses in its URL. It is portable, not encrypted; share it only with someone you trust.
This link includes: {{ assessmentSharedFieldLabels.join(', ') }}.
Score chart
Answer review
{{ assessmentHydrationError || 'This assessment session could not be evaluated.' }}
Personality descriptions are most useful as patterns of tendencies, not verdicts about character. The Big Five framework organizes many everyday differences into five broad domains: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Each domain describes a continuum, and neither end is automatically better in every setting.
A profile can help explain why someone seeks novelty but prefers quiet social settings, or why strong follow-through coexists with high stress reactivity. Context still matters. Work, culture, current mood, self-image, and the situations a person has in mind can all influence how an item is answered.
- Domain
- A broad trait built from 12 keyed responses, such as Extraversion or Conscientiousness.
- Facet
- A narrower clue within a domain. IPIP-NEO-60 has six two-item facets per domain.
- Norm or percentile
- A comparison with a reference population. This profile does not include either one.
The 60-item form offers more detail than a very short Big Five inventory. Its five domain means summarize broader patterns, while the 30 facets show which narrow themes may be lifting or lowering a domain. Because each facet uses only two items, a facet is best treated as a prompt for review rather than a stand-alone trait estimate.
Scores remain on the original 1 to 5 keyed response scale. Descriptive labels such as Lower endorsement, Middle range, and Higher endorsement show where a mean sits on that scale; they are local reading aids, not population categories. A high Neuroticism mean, for example, indicates stronger endorsement of stress-reactive content and does not diagnose a mental health condition.
This kind of profile can support voluntary self-reflection, coaching, education, or research. It is not suitable for diagnosis, treatment, crisis assessment, hiring, admissions, insurance, legal decisions, or other high-stakes judgments about an individual.
How to Use This Tool:
Choose one consistent frame—how you generally see yourself now—and answer for ordinary behavior rather than an ideal self or one unusual event.
- Rate all 60 statements from Very Inaccurate to Very Accurate. The profile is produced only after every item has a valid response.
- Finish the assessment and begin with the five 12-item domain means. Compare their relative shape before focusing on narrow differences.
- Open the profile detail to inspect the highest and lowest two-item facets within a domain, especially when its facet spread is marked Wide.
- Use Answer review to see which items were direct-keyed or reverse-keyed when a result conflicts with how you expected the profile to look.
Interpreting Results:
Start with the five domain means and their relative order. A mean of 4.10 shows stronger endorsement than a mean of 2.80 within this response set, but it does not mean the person scored above a stated percentage of adults. There is no overall personality score.
Next, check the facet spread within each domain. Closely grouped facets support a more even domain reading. A wide spread means that the broad average is combining quite different two-item clues, so the highest and lowest facets deserve inspection before the domain is summarized in one sentence.
- Read high and low scores as tendencies, not strengths and weaknesses.
- Treat the local endorsement labels as positions on the 1 to 5 response scale, not as norms or clinical cutoffs.
- Compare results across time only when the language, response frame, and administration conditions remain similar.
- Use the item review when a two-item facet seems surprising; one response can move a facet mean substantially.
Technical Details:
Every item records a raw value from 1 to 5. Direct-keyed statements keep that value. Reverse-keyed statements invert it so that larger keyed values consistently represent more of the named domain or facet. The scorer uses 37 direct-keyed and 23 reverse-keyed items, and complete responses are required.
Formula Core:
The keyed item value x either equals the raw response r or equals 6 minus that response.
A domain mean averages 12 keyed items. A facet mean averages its two keyed items, and facet spread is the largest facet mean minus the smallest facet mean within the domain.
If two facet items key to 5 and 3, their facet mean is 4.00. If the six facet means in that domain range from 2.50 to 4.00, the facet spread is 1.50 and is labeled Wide. Means and spreads are displayed to two decimal places; band selection uses the underlying numeric values.
| Domain | Six two-item facets |
|---|---|
| Neuroticism | Anxiety, Anger, Depression, Self-Consciousness, Immoderation, Vulnerability |
| Extraversion | Friendliness, Gregariousness, Assertiveness, Activity Level, Excitement-Seeking, Cheerfulness |
| Openness | Imagination, Artistic Interests, Emotionality, Adventurousness, Intellect, Liberalism |
| Agreeableness | Trust, Morality, Altruism, Cooperation, Modesty, Sympathy |
| Conscientiousness | Self-Efficacy, Orderliness, Dutifulness, Achievement-Striving, Self-Discipline, Cautiousness |
Rule Core:
The descriptive ranges belong to this presentation and are not norms from the IPIP-NEO-60 publication.
| Measure | Boundary | Label |
|---|---|---|
| Domain or facet mean | 1.00 to 2.40 | Lower endorsement |
| Domain or facet mean | Greater than 2.40 to 3.59 | Middle range |
| Domain or facet mean | Greater than 3.59 to 5.00 | Higher endorsement |
| Facet spread | Less than 0.50 | Closely grouped facets |
| Facet spread | 0.50 to less than 1.25 | Mixed facet pattern |
| Facet spread | 1.25 or greater | Wide facet spread |
Responsible Use and Privacy:
IPIP-NEO-60 is a self-report personality inventory for adults. It has no diagnostic or safety cutoffs, and this result has no local norms or validation for consequential selection. Do not use it to make treatment, hiring, admissions, insurance, eligibility, or legal decisions about a person.
- Short-lived mood, context, translation differences, impression management, and self-knowledge can affect responses.
- Two-item facets are especially sensitive to a single answer and should remain supporting clues.
- Answers and progress update this page's URL as you work. Anyone with the URL can read and edit the responses; the URL is not encrypted or access-controlled. Opening or reloading it sends the URL to this website and may leave it in browser history or server logs.
- It is portable but not encrypted or access-controlled.
References:
- IPIP-NEO-60 scoring keys, International Personality Item Pool.
- Converting IPIP Item Responses to Scale Scores, International Personality Item Pool.
- Using Item Response Theory to Develop a 60-Item Representation of the NEO PI-R Using the International Personality Item Pool, Journal of Personality Assessment, 2019.