Big Five Content Representation of the Japanese Version of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory

Atsushi Oshio, Shingo Abe, Pino Cutrone, Samuel D. Gosling

Baika Women’s University, Osaka, Japan.
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, USA.
Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/psych.2013.412133                

Abstract

The Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) is a widely used, very brief measure of the Big Five personality dimensions (Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003). Recently, Oshio, Abe and Cutrone (2012) developed and validated a Japanese version of the TIPI. The present study focuses on evaluating the content validity of the TIPI-J with respect to the thirty facets of the Japanese version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R-J). 163 Japanese undergraduates (67 males and 96 females) completed the TIPI-J and the NEO-PI-R-J. The convergent correlations between the TIPI-J and the Big Five dimensions of the NEO-PI-R-J were as follows: r = 0.65 (Extraversion), r = 0.49 (Agreeableness), r = 0.63 (Conscientiousness), r = 0.70 (Neuroticism), and r = 0.46 (Openness). Twenty-eight of thirty facets of the NEO-PI-R-J correlated positively with equivalent scales of the TIPI-J. A joint factor analysis of the five scales of the TIPI-J with the thirty facets of the NEO-PI-R-J showed clear indicators for the five known superordinate dimensions of personality in both scales. Results indicated that the TIPI-J provides an adequate representation of the Big Five dimensions of personality and correlates sufficiently well with the larger scale NEO-PI-R-J.

Keywords

Big Five Personality; Validity; NEO-PI-R; TIPI-J

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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