TITLE:
Big Five Content Representation of the Japanese Version of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory
AUTHORS:
Atsushi Oshio, Shingo Abe, Pino Cutrone, Samuel D. Gosling
KEYWORDS:
Big Five Personality; Validity; NEO-PI-R; TIPI-J
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.4 No.12,
December
5,
2013
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.