On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the epi.bfi data set which pertains to 13 personality scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory and Big 5 inventory. The epi.bfi data set is found in the psych R package. You can load the epi.bfi data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("epi.bfi"). This will load the data into a variable called epi.bfi. If R says the epi.bfi data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("psych") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the epi.bfi R data set. The size of this file is about 8,971 bytes.

13 personality scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory and Big 5 inventory

Description

A small data set of 5 scales from the Eysenck Personality Inventory, 5 from a Big 5 inventory, a Beck Depression Inventory, and State and Trait Anxiety measures. Used for demonstrations of correlations, regressions, graphic displays.

Usage

data(epi.bfi)

Format

A data frame with 231 observations on the following 13 variables.

epiE

EPI Extraversion

epiS

EPI Sociability (a subset of Extraversion items

epiImp

EPI Impulsivity (a subset of Extraversion items

epilie

EPI Lie scale

epiNeur

EPI neuroticism

bfagree

Big 5 inventory (from the IPIP) measure of Agreeableness

bfcon

Big 5 Conscientiousness

bfext

Big 5 Extraversion

bfneur

Big 5 Neuroticism

bfopen

Big 5 Openness

bdi

Beck Depression scale

traitanx

Trait Anxiety

stateanx

State Anxiety

Details

Self report personality scales tend to measure the “Giant 2" of Extraversion and Neuroticism or the “Big 5" of Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness. Here is a small data set from Northwestern University undergraduates with scores on the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) and a Big 5 inventory taken from the International Personality Item Pool.

Source

Data were collected at the Personality, Motivation, and Cognition Lab (PMCLab) at Northwestern by William Revelle)

References

http://personality-project.org/pmc.html

Examples

data(epi.bfi)
pairs.panels(epi.bfi[,1:5])
describe(epi.bfi)

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.