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16 Personality Factors

Cattell's sixteen primary factors, reported one by one rather than rolled up into a handful of broad traits.

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At a glance

Questions
163
Typical time
Under 20 min
Time limit
60 min
Age
18+
Cost
Free
Compared with
Adults generally

5-point scale ranging from “Strongly Disagree” to “Strongly Agree”

16 Personality Factors

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What it reports

Sixteen primary factors, reported individually rather than as a single score.

What it measures

Sixteen narrower factors instead of five or six broad ones. Cattell built it from the same trait vocabulary, cut finer.

How a result is read
Very low2%Low14%Average68%High14%Very high2%

Your score is read against adults generally. The bands below come from the shape of a normal distribution, which is the model the scoring assumes rather than a count from a reference sample. Most people sit in the middle and both ends are rare by definition, so a band is a position in a distribution, not a verdict.

Good uses

  • A more granular profile than the Big Five gives.
  • Seeing traits that broader models merge together.
  • Seeing where you sit relative to adults generally.

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Known limits

  • It records how you see yourself, not how you behave. The two come apart whenever you have a reason to look good.
  • Scores describe tendencies across many situations, not what you will do in any single one of them.
  • Sixteen factors overlap more than five do, so read the profile as a whole.

Other tests

Covering similar ground: Big Five 120 and HEXACO 60.

How it works

Three steps, then a result

  1. You answer

    163 questions, under 20 min. There is no penalty for stopping early, but leaving the page loses your answers.

  2. It is scored

    Scoring happens the moment you finish. Nothing is queued, emailed later or charged for.

  3. You read it against adults

    Your score is placed against adults generally, which is the one comparison group held for this test.

Length, against others measuring the same thing
Personality Types, 70 questions HEXACO 100, 100 questions HEXACO 60, 60 questions BIG FIVE 300, 300 questions BIG FIVE 120, 120 questions BIG FIVE 50, 50 questions HEXACO 24, 24 questions BIG FIVE 10, 10 questions

10 this test: 163 300

How you answer

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What you get

Your results, and their limits

As soon as you finish

You see your score on each scale the test measures, together with a short note on what that scale refers to and how to read the number. There is no charge.

Scores are read against adults generally. That is a way of interpreting the score rather than a percentile against a normed sample, so it tells you what the score means rather than where you rank among people of your age, occupation or country.

What it will not tell you

It is not a diagnosis and not a clinical assessment. It will not tell you whether you are suited to a particular job or course, and a score is not a verdict on you.

Results depend on how carefully and honestly you answer. If a result concerns you, or you are struggling, speak to a doctor or a licensed psychologist. Terms of use.

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