NovoPsych Five Factor Personality Scale – 30 item version (NFFPS-30)

The NovoPsych Five Factor Personality Scale – 30  is a brief self-report personality inventory measuring the well established five factor model of personality (a.k.a OCEAN). It is for use by older adolescents (ages 16+) and adults, where personality characteristics are compared to age and gender norms on the five factors of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism.

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