Development and Validation of the Faceted Inventory of the Five-Factor Model (FI-FFM)

Abstract

The Faceted Inventory of the Five-Factor Model (FI-FFM) is a comprehensive hierarchical measure of personality. The FI-FFM was created across five phases of scale development. It includes five facets apiece for neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness; four facets within agreeableness; and three facets for openness. We present reliability and validity data obtained from three samples. The FI-FFM scales are internally consistent and highly stable over 2 weeks (retest rs ranged from .64 to .82, median r = .77). They show strong convergent and discriminant validity vis-à-vis the NEO, the Big Five Inventory, and the Personality Inventory for DSM-5. Moreover, self-ratings on the scales show moderate to strong agreement with corresponding ratings made by informants ( rs ranged from .26 to .66, median r = .42). Finally, in joint analyses with the NEO Personality Inventory-3, the FI-FFM neuroticism facet scales display significant incremental validity in predicting indicators of internalizing psychopathology.

Links between depression and openness and its facets

“…Similarly, Soto and John's recent model of Openness includes three Openness facets: Intellectual curiosity, Aesthetic sensitivity and Creative imagination. Watson et al have also proposed a faceted model of Openness that includes three facets: Intellectance, Novel experience seeking and Nontraditionalism. Future studies should study the facet level relations between Openness and depression using alternative models of Openness.…”

“…Depression most often is conceptualized as Major Depressive Disorder, which according to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a state‐like cluster of both mental and physical symptoms. However, in the personality literature, depression often is conceptualized as a stable trait‐like construct that has a narrower content that mostly centers around the affective components of Major Depressive Disorder such as sadness, misery and hopelessness . Although both trait depression and state depression are distinct, they are also linked, with trait depression consisting of and leading to depressive states…”

“…However, in the personality literature, depression often is conceptualized as a stable trait-like construct that has a narrower content that mostly centers around the †Shereen Khoo is now at the University of Notre Dame, Department of Psychology, 118 Haggar Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556. affective components of Major Depressive Disorder such as sadness, misery and hopelessness. 5,6 Although both trait depression and state depression are distinct, they are also linked, with trait depression consisting of and leading to depressive states. 7 Personality and its relation to depression Many models have emerged to explain the symptoms associated with depression, some of which have focused on personality correlates.…”

Personality Correlates of Self-Injury in Adolescent Girls: Disentangling the Effects of Lifetime Psychopathology

“…The self-report personality battery included five general personality traits assessed by the Big Five Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999), plus the best-established facets of neuroticism (melancholia, anxiousness), conscientiousness (self-discipline, dutifulness, deliberateness, achievement striving, orderliness), and extraversion (positive temperament, assertiveness, sociability, venturesomness) from the Faceted Inventory of the Five-Factor Model (FI-FFM; Watson, Nus, & Wu, 2017). Hostility, a facet of neuroticism, was assessed using the hostility subscale from the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992).…”

“…Several studies indicate that persons who self-injure differ from persons without history of self-injury by high neuroticism and openness and low conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion according to the higher-order Big 5 traits (Brown, 2009; Goldstein, Flett, Wekerle, & Wall, 2009; MacLaren & Best, 2010; Mullins-Sweatt, Lengel, & Grant, 2013). The vast majority of these studies did not consider lower-order facets--the narrower, more homogenous traits that underlie the higher-order Big 5 traits (Watson, Nus, & Wu, 2017). Facets complement higher-order traits by providing more specific information regarding core affective, cognitive, and behavioral propensities.…”