Original Article Psychometric Properties of the French Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) Martin Storme, 1 Jean-Louis Tavani, 2 and Nils Myszkowski 3 1 Laboratoire Adaptation Travail-Individu, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, 2 Laboratoire Parisien de Psychologie Sociale – GRPPS, Université Paris 8 Vincennes, Saint-Denis, France, 3 Department of Psychology, Pace University, New York, NY, USA Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) in a French- speaking sample (1,554 participants, 59.3% of women). Our results showed that the French version of the TIPI has acceptable psychometric properties with satisfactory levels of temporal stability (after three and six weeks), satisfactory convergent and divergent construct validity in relationship with the Big Five Inventory (BFI), emotional intelligence, and self-esteem. As in the other translations of the TIPI, the limitation of our adaptation is the low level of internal consistency, especially concerning agreeableness, as in the Spanish version. The French TIPI is a promising scale that should be used preferably for exploratory purposes. Keywords: TIPI, short measure, Big Five, French adaptation This article aims at presenting the results of a study assess- ing the psychometric properties of a French adaptation of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann Jr., 2003), a very brief measure of the Big Five personality dimensions. The Big Five model of personality is one of the most famous and commonly used factorial models of personality (McCrae, 2009; Plaisant, Courtois, Réveillère, Mendelsohn, & John, 2010). It allows the description of people’s behavorial ten- dencies based on five theoretically independent traits: Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to new experiences. This model has been successfully applied to predict a large variety of psychological characteristics in a large variety of contexts and has been shown to be relevant in various cultural set- tings (Goldberg & Saucier, 1998). Short Measures The need for free and psychometrically valid questionnaires to assess the Big Five personality dimensions is particularly important given the large number of studies investigating personality on the basis of this theoretical model. All things being equal, longer instruments are expected to be more psychometrically robust than shorter ones (Gosling et al., 2003), that is the reason why questionnaires like the NEO PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 2008) are considered as a standard when it comes to evaluating the Big Five personality dimensions. Nevertheless, practical constraints on the field sometimes lead researchers to look for shorter measures. For example, the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John & Srivastava, 1999; Plaisant et al., 2010) has been developed to achieve psy- chometrically robust appraisals in a relatively short lapse of time (about 5 min) and it is one of the most used question- naires to measure the Big Five dimensions of personality. Despite the fact that the BFI is a short measure, it is still considered as requiring too much time in some very spe- cific contexts (Gosling et al., 2003). For example, some studies do not focus primarily on personality but could still benefit from controlling for personality characteristics of participants. Such contexts are not rare and that is why very brief measures were acclaimed by several psychology researchers (e.g., Donnellan, Oswald, Baird, & Lucas, 2006; Nichols & Webster, 2013; Reysen, Katzarska-Miller, Nesbit, & Pierce, 2013). Furthermore, short measures offer several advantages (e.g., reduction of participants’ fatigue and boredom) and can be sometimes as robust as their longer counterparts (Burisch, 1997; Gosling et al., 2003; Robins, Hendin, & Trzesniewski, 2001). Gosling et al. (2003) developed two very brief self- report measures of the Big Five: the Five-Item Personality Inventory (FIPI) and the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI). In the FIPI, each trait is assessed by one item whereas in the TIPI each trait is assessed by two items. In the TIPI, one reversed item had been added per trait. Because the time required to fill the TIPI in is almost the same as the time required to fill the FIPI in and because the TIPI showed slightly better reliability and construct Ó 2016 Hogrefe Publishing Journal of Individual Differences 2016; Vol. 37(2):81–87 DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000204 http://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/pdf/10.1027/1614-0001/a000204 - Martin Storme <martinstorme@ymail.com> - Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:59:55 AM - IP Address:91.199.6.245