With a few notable exceptions, sociologists, economists, and public opinion researchers have generally neglected the role of personality in status attainment, well-being, and related research on non-cognitive skills. This is partly because the existing measurement instruments for the well-known Big Five personality traits are far too long for inclusion in the large nationwide (as opposed to clinical) surveys where status attainment and well-being are typically analyzed. Accordingly, with the goal of identifying a powerful, concise collection of items measuring key personality traits, we included the classical full 60-item NEO-5 personality test measurements in a special follow-up to the Czech edition of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC; n = 2198). Using classical measurement techniques of factor analysis, supplemented by structural equation analyses which also take into account correlations with criterion variables, we assess the value of the different potential items. We arrive at a concise set that, for general social science as opposed to clinical purposes, adequately measures two of the Big Five personality traits: extraversion (4 items) and conscientiousness (4 items). We also find an empirically highly reliable measure of third, neuroticism (6 items), but have some doubts about its conceptual meaning. We do not find adequate measures of openness to experience or to agreeableness, the remainder of the Big Five.

除少数值得注意的例外，社会学家，经济学家和舆论研究人员普遍忽略了人格在获得地位，幸福感以及有关非认知技能的相关研究中的作用。部分原因是，针对著名的“五大”人格特质的现有测量工具太长，无法包含在通常分析地位和幸福感的全国性大型（与临床相对）的调查中。因此，为了确定一个功能强大而简洁的项目，这些项目测量人格特质，我们将经典的完整60项NEO-5人格测试测量值纳入了捷克版的《国际评估计划》的特别后续措施中成人能力评估（PIAAC； n = 2198）。使用经典的因子分析测量技术，在结构方程分析的补充下（也考虑了与标准变量的相关性），我们评估了不同潜在项目的价值。我们得出一个简洁的结论，对于一般社会科学而不是临床目的，它可以适当地衡量五大人格特质中的两个：外向性（4项）和尽职调查（4项）。我们还找到了第三种神经质现象的经验上高度可靠的测量方法（6项），但对其概念意义存有疑问。我们找不到足够的开放性来衡量经验或令人愉快的程度，这是大五国的其余部分。对于一般社会科学而不是临床目的，要充分衡量“五大”人格特质中的两个：外向性（4项）和尽责性（4项）。我们还找到了第三种神经质现象的经验上高度可靠的测量方法（6项），但对其概念意义存有疑问。我们找不到足够的开放性来衡量经验或令人愉快的程度，这是大五国的其余部分。对于一般社会科学而不是临床目的，要充分衡量“五大”人格特质中的两个：外向性（4项）和尽责性（4项）。我们还找到了第三种神经质现象的经验上高度可靠的测量方法（6项），但对其概念意义存有疑问。我们找不到足够的开放性来衡量经验或令人愉快的程度，这是大五国的其余部分。