A test of a new short Big-Five tool in large probabilistic samples from 19 countries

Few short Big Five instruments have been tested for invariance across samples from a large number of countries. To fill this gap, we measured the Big Five personality traits in probability samples (n > 1000 in each country) from Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, UK, US, and Vietnam. We used a new, short Big Five questionnaire, based on the BFI...