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PRO-ED published Five-Factor Personality Test for Children, a measure of the Big Five personality dimensions in children aged 9–18 years old. The instrument is a 75-item pencil-paper Likert style scale designed for clinical use.
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The Five-Factor Personality Inventory-Children (FFPI-C) is a standardized measure normed on 1,284 youth from 18 states (based on 2000 and 2002 census data) produced by PRO-ED aiming to capture normal and clinical meaningful variation in the “Big Five” factors of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional regulation (neuroticism) (McGhee et al. 2008). According to the FFPI-C scheme, openness indicates children’s aestheticism, imaginative interests, intellectualism, novelty seeking, and openness to different points of view; conscientiousness items indicate tendency toward competence, organizational abilities, dutifulness, and self-discipline; emotional regulation items measure children’s anxiety, hostility,...
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Barger, B. (2017). Five-Factor Personality Inventory-Children. 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_33-1
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