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SFPQ
Six Factor Personality Questionnaire
Douglas N. Jackson, Ph.D., Sampo V. Paunonen, Ph.D., & Paul F. Tremblay, Ph.D. © 2000
Concise Inventory of Personality Expanding on the Big 5

Outline
• About SIGMA Assessment Systems, Inc.
• About the Authors
• Executive Summary
• Quick Facts
• Applications
• Distinguishing Features: Big 5 and More
• SFPQ Factors and Facets
• Sample Report
• Norms & Reliability
• Validity
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About SIGMA Assessment Systems, Inc.
• Established in 1967
­ Founded by Douglas N. Jackson, Ph.D.
­ Founding member of the Association of Test Publishers
• International reputation for excellence.
­ SIGMA’s cognitive ability measure, the MAB-II, was used in the selection of
NASA astronauts, and US Air Force Pilots.
­ SIGMA's assessments have been translated into over a dozen languages, and
SIGMA licenses its Intellectual Property to test publishers throughout the
world.
­ The Career Direction Inventory, an assessment developed by SIGMA, is one of
the most widely used career assessments on the Internet.
­ SIGMA successfully implemented a large-scale global rollout of 360 Degree
Feedback to over 35,000 employees of DaimlerChrysler.
• Satisfied clients include: Golf Town, Chapters Indigo Canada, Spinx,
Kellogg’s, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Great Clips, IKEA, EZCorp, Best
Buy, Safeway, Sunswept Resorts, Giant Tiger, Schreiber, Wyndham Hotels
and Resorts, American Airlines, Shred-It, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, US
Army, British Airways, and many more.
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The Authors of the SFPQ
About Dr. Douglas N. Jackson:
• Former Chair: American Psychological Association’s (APA)
Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessments.
• Former President: APA’s Division of Evaluation,
Measurement, and Statistics; and Society of Multivariate
Experimental Psychology.
• One of a very few US Citizens elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada for contributions to science.
• Delegate to International Test Commission and member of its
Executive Council.
• Awarded the "Samuel J. Messick Award" for Distinguished
Scientific Contributions by APA Division 5 (Evaluation,
Measurement, and Statistics).
• Has published over 200 articles in scientific journals and
several dozen book chapters
• Over 3 million people have taken assessments authored by Dr.
Jackson.
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The Authors of the SFPQ (continued)
About Dr. Sampo V. Paunonen:
• Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of
Western Ontario (UWO).
• Research interests include personality assessment, test
construction, person perception, cross-cultural issues in
personality, and multivariate statistical methods.
About Dr. Paul F. Tremblay:
• Adjunct Research Professor at UWO and Research Scientist at the
Center for Addiction and Mental Health.
• Research interests include quantitative assessment, assessment of
aggressive dispositions, development of a taxonomy of provoking
situations, and academic motivation.
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Six Factor Personality Questionnaire:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• The SFPQ is a new concise measure of the major
dimensions of personality.
• It has benefited expert development and distinguished
pedigree, as its development is based on the items from
the renowned Personality Research Form, and Jackson
Personality Inventory-Revised.
• The SFPQ improves upon popular Big 5 measures.
Please refer to its favorable review in the Mental
Measurements Yearbook (Buros Institute, 2003).
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Six Factor Personality Questionnaire:
QUICK FACTS
• Encompasses and extends the popular Big 5 factors of
personality.
• SFPQ measures the 6 (or Big 5) factors as efficiently as
other measures that are more than twice as long.
• Administration Time: 20 minutes.
• Reading Level: Grade 5.
• Age: 18 and over.
• Qualifications: Level B.
• Scoring: Hand scoring, mail-in scoring, computer
(software) scoring, and internet scoring.
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Six Factor Personality Questionnaire:
APPLICATIONS
• Assessment of normal
adult personality.
• Useful in personnel
selection and in counseling
settings.
• Research requiring a broad
coverage of personality
dimensions.
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Distinguishing Features of the SFPQ:
Big 5 and More
Superior development and psychometric
properties:
• Improved model of Conscientiousness that includes
Methodicalness and Industriousness.
• Six factors achieves increased validity over the
traditional Big 5 factors.
• Goodness of fit indices indicate that the 6 factor
model is superior to the 5 factor model.
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Distinguishing Features of the SFPQ:
Big 5 and More (continued)
Ideal for selection:
• Unlike other popular measures of Big 5, SFPQ items are
minimally correlated with desirability.
• No clinical scales, such as Neuroticisim.
• Job applicant norms available
• Administrative Indices
­ Response Consistency Index
­ Unscorable Responses
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SFPQ Factors and Facet scales
• Agreeableness
• Abasement
• Even-tempered
• Good-natured
• Independence
• Autonomy
• Individualism
• Self-Reliance
• Methodicalness
• Cognitive Structure
• Deliberateness
• Order
• Extraversion
• Affiliation
• Dominance
• Exhibition
• Industriousness
• Achievement
• Seriousness
• Endurance
• Openness to Experience
• Change
• Understanding
• Breadth of Interest
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SFPQ Sample Report
• Basic Report includes:
• Profiles of 6 factor and
18 facet scale scores.
• Descriptions of high
and low scores for
each scale.
• Administrative
Indices.
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Norms & Reliability of the SFPQ
• Norms:
• Systematically sampled group of 1067 men and
women from the United States and Canada.
• Normative information for a sample of 4040 job
applicants available.
• Reliability:
• Reliability values (Cronbach alpha) ranged from .76
to .86 (median = .81) for the factor scales.
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Validity of the SFPQ
• Structural equation modeling analyses support
the hypothesized factor structure.
• Correlations between self and peer ratings
ranged from .45 to .69 (mean .56).
• Correlations between the SFPQ and several
well-known measures of personality provide
evidence of convergent and discriminant
validity (see manual).
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“The SFPQ improves upon the Big 5
Model, and popular measures of the Big 5
in several important ways.”
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