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NEO Personality Inventory — Revised

The NEO PI-R is a comprehensive 240-item self-report personality assessment that measures five major personality dimensions and thirty lower-order facets. Developed by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae in the early 1990s, it operationalizes the Five-Factor Model of personality—one of the most empirically validated trait taxonomies in psychological science. The measure has become the gold standard for personality assessment in clinical, research, and occupational settings.

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NEO Personality Inventory — Revised (NEO PI-R)
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  • Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) professional manual. Psychological Assessment Resources. · URL
  • McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (1989). The structure of interpersonal traits: Expanding the interpersonal circumplex. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48(6), 1670–1680. · URL
  • Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (2008). The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R). In G. J. Boyle, G. Matthews, & D. H. Saklofske (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of personality theory and assessment: Vol. 2. Personality measurement and testing (pp. 179–198). SAGE Publications. · ISBN 978-1-4129-4170-8
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