The psychometric properties of the Big Five inventory-10 (BFI-10) including correlations with subjective and psychological well-being

Abstract

The article sums up the results of a psychometric study carried out on a sample of Romanian students (N = 496; 193 females) in order to assess the psychometric qualities of Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10). The questionnaire measures the 5 factors of personality from the Five Factors model. The convergent validity is demonstrated by the fact that BFI-10 correlates with the measures for: subjective well-being like happiness, life satisfaction, positive and negative affect and psychological well-being and its dimensions. Internal consistency is acceptable given that we evaluated an extra-short scale with two items per factor, although much reduced in comparison with the instruments with a large number of items. The confirmatory factorial analysis revealed a five-factor structure similar to the original structure with the modification of the factors Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. We consider that the application of BFI-10 must be accompanied and correlated with other instruments when it comes to assessing personality. It is necessary that the instrument BFI-10 should be perfected by redefining the items it contains.