Personality

Big Five Inventory BFI. John & Srivastava 1999, Handbook of Personality. 44-item scale.
Big Five Inventory-10 BFI-10. Rammstedt & John 2007, Journal of Research in Personality. Only 10 items. German version can be found in the original article.
Mini-IPIP Scales. Donnellan et al. 2006, Psychological Assessment. 20-item scales to assess Big Five Factors of Personality from International Personality Item Pool .
Short Big Five SOEP Inventory. Lang et al., 2011, Behavior Research Methods. 15-item scale.
Core Self-Evaluation Scale, CSES. From Judge, Erez, Bono, & Thoresen, 1993.
International Personality Item Pool. Free measures of dozens of personality traits including Big Five.
HEXACO Personality Inventory. No cost for noncommercial use. Available in more than 25 languages.

Emotional Intelligence. Law et al. 2004, Journal of Applied Psychology. Total score plus subscales of Self-emotions appraisal, Regulation of emotions, Use of emotion, Others-emotion appraisal.
Political Skill Inventory. Ferris et al., 2005, Journal of Management. Measures 4 dimensions of political skill.

Boredom Proneness Scale BP. Farmer & Sundberg, 1986, Journal of Personality Assessment.
Boredom Proneness Scale BPS. Vodanovich & Kass 1990, Journal of Personality Assessment.
Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form BPS-SF. Struk et al., 2017, Assessment. 8-item version of the BPS.
Review of boredom measures. Vodanovich & Watt 2016, The Journal of Psychology.
PANAS-X Manual by Watson & Clark. Measures both positive and negative emotions. Can be used for state or trait emotions. Expanded version of the original PANAS that can be found here.
Test of Self-Conscious Affect TOSCA, Tagney et al. 2000. Assessed trait guilt and shame.

Action-State Orientation. Diefendorff et al. 2020, Journal of Applied Psychology. Three dimensions of Preoccupation, Hesitation, and Volatility.
Emotional intelligence scale. Law et al. 2004 Journal of Applied Psychology.
Everyday Psychological Inflexibility Checklist. Thompson et al. 2019, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.
Indecisiveness. Germeija & De Boeck 2002.
Political Skill Inventory. Ferris et al., 2005. Measures 4 dimensions of political skill.
Proactive Attitude. Ralf Schwarzer, 1999. Belief in one’s own potential and sense of personal responsibility.
Procrastination. Schwarzer et al. 2000.
Resistance to Change. Shaul Oreg 2003, Four dimensions.
Risk aversion. From Judge, Thoresen, Pucik, & Welbourne.
Self-Regulation. Schwarzer et al., 1999. Ability to stay focused on goal-directed behavior.
Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire SSRQ. Carey et al. 2004, Addictive Behaviors.
Tolerance for ambiguity. From Judge, Thoresen, Pucik, & Welbourne, 1999.

Compassionate love for close others. Sprecher & Fehr 2005, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale. Hwang & Plante 2008, Pastoral Psychology.

Academic locus of control. Trice 1985, Perceptual and Motor Skills. For college students.
Aviation safety locus of control. Hunter 2002, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine.
Brief locus of control scale. Lumpkin 1985, Psychological Reports. Six items from Rotter’s scale but with a summated rating scale format.
Economic locus of control. Furnham 1986, Human Relations.
General locus of control. Rotter 1966, Psychological Monographs: General and Applied. The original forced-choice scale.
Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scales MHLC. Walston et al. 1978, Health education monographs.
Sales locus of control. Chung & Ding 2002, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
Spheres of Control Scale SOC-3. Paulhus & Van Selst 1990, Personality and Individual Differences. A three-dimensional measure of Personal control, Interpersonal control, and socio-political control.
Work Locus of Control Scale WLCS. Spector 1988, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Active Procrastination Scale. Choi & Moran 2009, The Journal of Social Psychology. Subscales of Outcome satisfaction, Preference for pressure, Intentional decision, Ability to meet deadlines.
Aggression Questionnaire. Buss and Perry, 1992. Subscales for physical aggression, verbal aggression, anger, and hostility.
Dark Triad. Measures of Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. By Jones & Paulhaus, 2011 who provide both long and short forms. An interactive version is here.
Dark Triad Italian.By Somma et al., 2019.
Dutch Work Addiction Scale DUWAS. del Libano et al. 2010, Psicothema.
Workplace Hostile Attribution Style Survey, WHAS Bal & O’Brien 2010. SIOP conference paper.
Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale LSRP. Levenson et al. 1995. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Mach IV Machiavellianism Scale. Christie & Geis 1970, Studies in Machiavellianism. The most popular scale of the trait.
Machiavellianism scale. Kessler et al. 2010, Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Workplace focus. Three dimensions of maintaining power, harsh management tactics, and manipulative behaviors.
Narcissistic Personality Inventory NPI. Raskin & Howard 1988, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Forty-item original.
Narcissistic Personality Inventory 16 NPI-16. Ames et al. 2006, Journal of Research in Personality. Short form of the NPI.

Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Frost & Marten 1990, Cognitive Therapy and Research. Six dimensions of Concern over mistakes, Personal standards, Parental expectations, Parental criticism, Doubts about actions, Organization.
Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale 4 dimension. Stoeber 1998, Personality and Individual Differences. Four dimensions derived from original with better factor structure.
Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Hewitt & Flett 1991, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Three dimensions of Self-oriented perfectionism, Other-oriented perfectionism, Socially prescribed perfectionism.
New General Self-Efficacy Scale NGSE. Chen et al. 2001. Organizational Research Methods.
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Rosenberg 1995, American Sociological Review.
The Resilience Scale. Wagnild & Young 2009, Journal of Nursing Measurement.
Self-Efficacy Scale. Sherer & Maddux 1982, Psychological Reports. Subscales of General self-efficacy and Social self-efficacy.

Power distance orientation. Dorfman & Howell, 1988, Advances in Comparative Management.