<p>On <a href="https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/Annex-A-Measures-of-the-big-five-dimensions.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this website</a> the scoring of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Big 5</a> is explained a bit better I think. They refer to the original Big 5 paper that you've linked.</p>
<p>From what I understand there are 10 questions, and each of the 5 character traits is represented by 2 questions. One question is counted as is, while the other question in the pair is reversed-scored to describe the character trait. The reverse scoring of one of the answer pairs is necessary because that question is asked in an opposite approach.</p>
<p>There are 5 traits (the Big 5):</p>
<p><strong>Extraversion</strong>: 1R, 6<br />
<strong>Agreeableness</strong>: 2, 7R<br />
<strong>Conscientiousness</strong>: 3R, 8<br />
<strong>Neuroticism</strong>: 4R, 9<br />
<strong>Openness to experience</strong>: 5R; 10</p>
<p>So extraversion is scored using the reverse score of question 1 and the score of question 6. Note that the question 6 (asking to rate 'extravertness') is opposite to question 1 ('introvertness').</p>
<p>Likewise, agreeableness is scored using the score of question 2 and the reverse score of question 7.
<em>etctera</em>.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>From <a href="https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Ejohnlab/pdfs/BFI-Scoring.doc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this doc</a>, I got the idea how this is calculated, though the document is about BFI-44 not BFI-10.</p>
<p>Basic concept is, for <code>R</code> (reverse) ones, we have to subtract the answer's numeric value from 6. So, for <code>R</code> questions, values will be transformed like this: (1=5)  (2=4)  (3=3)  (4=2)  (5=1). Then we need to find the <code>mean</code> of the each pair like (1R,6). Here <code>mean</code> just means divide the sum of each pair by 2.</p>
<pre><code>Extraversion: 1R, 6 = mean((6 - answer_of_question1), answer_of_question6)
Agreeableness: 2, 7R = mean(answer_of_question2, (6 - answer_of_question7))
Conscientiousness: 3R, 8 = mean((6 - answer_of_question3), answer_of_question8)
Neuroticism: 4R, 9 = mean((6 - answer_of_question4), answer_of_question9)
Openness to experience: 5R, 10 = mean((6 - answer_of_question5), answer_of_question10)
</code></pre>

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<p>I am a physicist and I am doing a survey about musical genre preferences and correlation with a field of study.</p>
<p>I want to interpret the results from this test</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/QHLsl.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/QHLsl.png" alt="10-BFI test" /></a></p>
<p>I don't know how to interpret the legend, and whether there are some particular details to be taken into account:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/ZEawN.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ZEawN.png" alt="10-BFI Score" /></a></p>
<p>Thank you to all.</p>
<p>Reference<br />
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.02.001" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.02.001</a></p>

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# 10-BFI test score compiling

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-09-10)

I am a physicist and I am doing a survey about musical genre preferences and correlation with a field of study.

I want to interpret the results from this test

[![10-BFI test](https://i.sstatic.net/QHLsl.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/QHLsl.png)

I don't know how to interpret the legend, and whether there are some particular details to be taken into account:

[![10-BFI Score](https://i.sstatic.net/ZEawN.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/ZEawN.png)

Thank you to all.

Reference  
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.02.001>

**Tags:** measurement, personality, methodology, experimental-psychology, big-five


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-09-13. Score: 2

On [this website](https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/Annex-A-Measures-of-the-big-five-dimensions.pdf) the scoring of the [Big 5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits) is explained a bit better I think. They refer to the original Big 5 paper that you've linked.

From what I understand there are 10 questions, and each of the 5 character traits is represented by 2 questions. One question is counted as is, while the other question in the pair is reversed-scored to describe the character trait. The reverse scoring of one of the answer pairs is necessary because that question is asked in an opposite approach.

There are 5 traits (the Big 5):

**Extraversion**: 1R, 6  
**Agreeableness**: 2, 7R  
**Conscientiousness**: 3R, 8  
**Neuroticism**: 4R, 9  
**Openness to experience**: 5R; 10

So extraversion is scored using the reverse score of question 1 and the score of question 6. Note that the question 6 (asking to rate 'extravertness') is opposite to question 1 ('introvertness').

Likewise, agreeableness is scored using the score of question 2 and the reverse score of question 7.
*etctera*.

Hope this helps.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2024-07-18. Score: 1

From this doc, I got the idea how this is calculated, though the document is about BFI-44 not BFI-10.
Basic concept is, for R (reverse) ones, we have to subtract the answer's numeric value from 6. So, for R questions, values will be transformed like this: (1=5)  (2=4)  (3=3)  (4=2)  (5=1). Then we need to find the mean of the each pair like (1R,6). Here mean just means divide the sum of each pair by 2.
Extraversion: 1R, 6 = mean((6 - answer_of_question1), answer_of_question6)
Agreeableness: 2, 7R = mean(answer_of_question2, (6 - answer_of_question7))
Conscientiousness: 3R, 8 = mean((6 - answer_of_question3), answer_of_question8)
Neuroticism: 4R, 9 = mean((6 - answer_of_question4), answer_of_question9)
Openness to experience: 5R, 10 = mean((6 - answer_of_question5), answer_of_question10)


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