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The Supernumerary Personality Inventory

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SPI

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The SPI measures ten facet-level traits thought to lie beyond the Big Five personality factor space. It is a self-reported instrument comprising 150 items, each to be rated on a 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) Likert-type scale. Completion time is estimated to be 15 min.

Introduction

The Supernumerary Personality Inventory (SPI; Paunonen 2002) was developed to measure ten facet-level traits that supposedly reside outside the factor space of the well-known Big Five personality dimensions. These ten traits are Conventionality, Seductiveness, Manipulativeness, Thriftiness, Humorousness, Integrity, Femininity, Religiosity, Risk-taking, and Egotism. Brief descriptions of these traits can be found in Hong and Paunonen (2009) and Paunonen et al. (2003). These traits are measured using 150 items (15 items per facet scale) on 5-point Likert-type rating scale.

The motivation behind developing the SPI stems from a debate on the comprehensiveness of the Big Five...

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  1. Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, 9 Arts Link, 117570, Singapore, Singapore

    Ryan Y. Hong & Xiang Ling Ong

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  1. Ryan Y. Hong
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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Brendan Clark

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Hong, R.Y., Ong, X.L. (2017). The Supernumerary Personality Inventory. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_89-1

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