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Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schmitt‐Beck, Rüdiger; Schoen, Harald; Weßels, Bernhard; Wolf, Christof; Bieber, Ina; Stövsand, Lars-Christopher; Dietz, Melanie; Scherer, Philipp

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“…Based on the aforementioned criteria, we included eight study programs that had administered the BFI-10: (1) the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS; GESIS, 2011a, 2011b, 2015); (2) the German Internet Panel (GIP; Blom et al, 2015); (3) the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES, 2019a, 2019b, 2022); (4) the GESIS Panel (Bosnjak et al, 2018; GESIS, 2022); (5) the “Older Adults” sample of the Jena Study on Social Change and Human Development (Silbereisen et al, 2008; see also Lechner & Rammstedt, 2015); (6) the adult cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; Blossfeld & von Maurice, 2011; NEPS Network, 2021); as well as the German surveys within the framework of (7) the Study on Health and Retirement (SHARE; Bergmann et al, 2019; Börsch-Supan, 2022; Börsch-Supan et al, 2013) and (8) the World Values Survey (WVS; Ingelhart et al, 2018). Whereas most of these programs focus on the general adult population, SHARE, and the Jena Study focus on older adults (see Table 1 for an overview of the different programs and samples).…”

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Consistency of the Structural Properties of the BFI-10 Across 16 Samples From Eight Large-Scale Surveys in Germany

Rammstedt

Roemer

Lechner

2024

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

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The assessment of the Big Five personality domains is standard practice in most large-scale social surveys nowadays. The instrument most widely used for this purpose is the BFI-10, an ultra-short measure assessing each Big Five domain with two items. Recent studies have identified issues with the structural properties of the BFI-10, especially its factorial validity. To investigate whether these issues arise from the instrument itself or biases due to translation or sampling, we examined the extent to which the structural properties of the BFI-10 in terms of descriptive statistics, intercorrelations, reliability, and factorial validity vary when keeping the target population and language constant. Results revealed that, across 16 independent samples (total N ~ 60,000) from eight large-scale surveys representative of the adult population in Germany, the structural properties of the BFI-10 were (a) largely consistent and (b) mostly adequate. Most importantly, in nearly all samples, patterns of loading were congruent with an idealized Big Five structure, thereby supporting factorial validity. These results demonstrate that the structural properties of the BFI-10 are highly stable and replicable in large-scale samples. Especially given its brevity, the BFI-10 can thus be regarded as adequate for use in large-scale survey settings.

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