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epi.bfi

13 personality scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory and Big 5 inventory

Description

A small data set of 5 scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory, 5 from a Big 5 inventory, a Beck Depression Inventory, and State and Trait Anxiety measures. Used for demonstrations of correlations, regressions, graphic displays.

Usage

data(epi.bfi)

Format

A data frame with 231 observations on the following 13 variables.

epiE: EPI Extraversion
epiS: EPI Sociability (a subset of Extraversion items
epiImp: EPI Impulsivity (a subset of Extraversion items
epilie: EPI Lie scale
epiNeur: EPI neuroticism
bfagree: Big 5 inventory (from the IPIP) measure of Agreeableness
bfcon: Big 5 Conscientiousness
bfext: Big 5 Extraversion
bfneur: Big 5 Neuroticism
bfopen: Big 5 Openness
bdi: Beck Depression scale
traitanx: Trait Anxiety
stateanx: State Anxiety

Details

Self report personality scales tend to measure the “Giant 2" of Extraversion and Neuroticism or the “Big 5" of Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness. Here is a small data set from Northwestern University undergraduates with scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and a Big 5 inventory taken from the International Personality Item Pool.

Source

Data were collected at the Personality, Motivation, and Cognition Lab (PMCLab) at Northwestern by William Revelle)

References

https://personality-project.org/pmc.html

Examples

data(epi.bfi)
psych::pairs.panels(epi.bfi[,1:5])
psych::describe(epi.bfi)

psychTools

Tools to Accompany the 'psych' Package for Psychological Research

v2.1.12

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

William Revelle [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-9610>)

Initial release

2021-12-02