Personality Testing

This page provides links to a variety of personality tests. After the completion of a test, you receive a test score and test scores of comparison samples (mostly psychology undergraduate students in North America). The results can be informative, but you should keep in mind that the results are influenced by many factors (e.g., individual differences in the interpretation of the test questions or the response options, an inappropriate comparison group). Do not take the results too seriously.

If you have any comments or questions regarding the tests or your test results, you can email me at uli.Schimmack@utoronto.ca

Big Five International Personality Item Pool (IPIP-300 created by Goldberg; see IPIP website ) (This survey assesses the Big Five personality dimensions. It also provides more detailed information about six facets of each dimension)

Pairwise Comparison Value Survey (PCVS; see Oishi, Schimmack, Diener, & Suh, 1998; Schwartz, 1992; A test of the relative importance of 10 universal human values such as Power and Social Relationships)

Satisfaction with Life Scale (see Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985; A measure of life-satisfaction; the cognitive component of subjective well-being)

Self-Esteem (see Rosenberg, 1965; A widely used measure of global self-esteeem).