Translation and adaptation of short five factor personality questionnaire (TIPI-RU): convergent validity, internal consistency and test-retest reliability evaluation

This project involves development and validation of TIPI-RU–Russian adaptation of Ten-Item Personality Inventory by S. Gosling, P. Rentfrow and W. Swann. Main study was made on a sample of 218 (109 male, 109 female) students from one of Saint-Petersburg tech universities (main sample), test-retest study was made on an additional sample of 51 individuals: students and volunteers gathered via snowball method. TIPI-RU is shown to be internally consistent in all its parameters except Openness (which is also true for the original TIPI). Using 5PFQ as a template we have evaluated convergent validity of TIPI-RU and obtained good results for all characteristics. Test-retest validity check has shown decent stability and reproducibility of TIPI-RU results. This work employs novel mathematical approaches to dimensionality reduction and random vector dependence measuring in evaluation of internal consistency, convergent validity and test-retest reliability. The results are significant with p-value lesser than 0.001.

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