bfiDat {modnets}

bfi data

Description

Composite scores on the Big 5 personality dimensions and gender. Adapted from the bfi data in the psychTools package.

Usage

bfiDat

Format

A data frame with six variables representing composite scores forparticipants across the Big 5 personality dimensions as well as gender. A is Agreeableness, C is conscientiousness, E is extraversion, N is neuroticism, and O is openness to experience. For a given participant, each value represents the mean of 5 self report items from the associated scale. Response values range from 0 to 6. In total, 7 negatively-worded items were reverse scored before calculating scale composites. gender is a binary variable coded such that 0 = Males, and 1 = Females.

Source

The items are from the IPIP (Goldberg, 1999). The data are from the SAPA project (Revelle, Wilt and Rosenthal, 2010) , collected Spring, 2010 ( https://www.sapa-project.org/).

References

Goldberg, L.R. (1999) A broad-bandwidth, public domain, personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models. In Mervielde, I. and Deary, I. and De Fruyt, F. and Ostendorf, F. (eds) Personality psychology in Europe. 7. Tilburg University Press. Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Revelle, W., Wilt, J., and Rosenthal, A. (2010) Individual Differences in Cognition: New Methods for examining the Personality-Cognition Link In Gruszka, A. and Matthews, G. and Szymura, B. (Eds.) Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory and Executive Control, Springer.