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Five-Factor Model

The Five-Factor Model: Emergence of a Taxonomic Model for Personality Psychology"
This paper discusses the five-factor model and evaluates the model's merits, concluding that it cannot be considered a great theory--not because it is not great--but because it is not a theory. By Nathan C. Popkins.

The Big Five Taxonomy"
This paper is a review of the Big Five. By Frank Fujita.

The NEO Five Factor Model and Skimming the Surface of the Wetlands of Personality"
This paper in Psybernetika criticizes the five-factor model on many grounds. By Darek Dawda.

Big Five Quickstart
This website is an introduction to the five-factor model for human resources professionals. By Pierce J. Howard and Jane Mitchell Howard.

Google Web Directory: Five-Factor Model
This page contains numerous links to websites on the five-factor model rank-ordered by popularity. By Google.

International Personality Item Pool: A Scientific Collaboratory for the Development of Advanced Measures of Personality and Other Individual Differences
This website is an attempt to develop "a broad-bandwidth, public-domain personality inventory measuring the lower-level facets of several five-factor models." By Lewis R. Goldberg.

International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO-PI-R
Here is a free, on-line, 300-item personality questionnaire that will tell you how you score on the dimensions of the five-factor model and their specific facets. A 50-item Short Form is also available for the five dimensions only. By John A. Johnson.

Open Directory: Five-Factor Model
This page contains numerous links to websites on the five-factor model ordered alphabetically. By the Open Directory Project.