Personality Assessment Trials
Catherine J. Weinberger, University of California, Santa Barbara

Personality is related to labor market outcomes including earnings and selection to occupations. In research studies, there are tradeoffs between shorter personality assessments that do not take much time to complete, and longer assessments that do a better job of capturing an individual's characteristics. In this study, I am simply trying to understand how the information collected in a very short 10-item assessment developed by Gosling, Rentfrow and Swann (2003) compares with responses to a slightly longer 16-item assessment that I developed for my longitudinal study. I would also like to learn more about how each of these compares with the 44-item Big Five Inventory (John and Srivastava, 1999).

references:

John, Oliver P., and Srivastava, Sanjay. (1999). The Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin, & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp.102–138). New York: Guilford Press.

Gosling, Samuel D., Peter J. Rentfrow and William B. Swann (2003), " A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains" Journal of Research in Personality 37:504–528