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

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.

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)

Examples

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

psych::describe(epi.bfi)
#>          vars   n   mean    sd median trimmed   mad min max range  skew
#> epiE        1 231  13.33  4.14     14   13.49  4.45   1  22    21 -0.33
#> epiS        2 231   7.58  2.69      8    7.77  2.97   0  13    13 -0.57
#> epiImp      3 231   4.37  1.88      4    4.36  1.48   0   9     9  0.06
#> epilie      4 231   2.38  1.50      2    2.27  1.48   0   7     7  0.66
#> epiNeur     5 231  10.41  4.90     10   10.39  4.45   0  23    23  0.06
#> bfagree     6 231 125.00 18.14    126  125.26 17.79  74 167    93 -0.21
#> bfcon       7 231 113.25 21.88    114  113.42 22.24  53 178   125 -0.02
#> bfext       8 231 102.18 26.45    104  102.99 22.24   8 168   160 -0.41
#> bfneur      9 231  87.97 23.34     90   87.70 23.72  34 152   118  0.07
#> bfopen     10 231 123.43 20.51    125  123.78 20.76  73 173   100 -0.16
#> bdi        11 231   6.78  5.78      6    5.97  4.45   0  27    27  1.29
#> traitanx   12 231  39.01  9.52     38   38.36  8.90  22  71    49  0.67
#> stateanx   13 231  39.85 11.48     38   38.92 10.38  21  79    58  0.72
#>          kurtosis   se
#> epiE        -0.06 0.27
#> epiS        -0.02 0.18
#> epiImp      -0.62 0.12
#> epilie       0.24 0.10
#> epiNeur     -0.50 0.32
#> bfagree     -0.27 1.19
#> bfcon        0.23 1.44
#> bfext        0.51 1.74
#> bfneur      -0.55 1.54
#> bfopen      -0.16 1.35
#> bdi          1.50 0.38
#> traitanx     0.47 0.63
#> stateanx    -0.01 0.76