NEO™ Personality Inventory-3
(NEO™ PI-3)
Paul T. Costa, Jr., PhD, and Robert R. McCrae, PhD.
Overview & What’s New
• Measures the five major domains of personality (Neuroticism,
Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness)
and the most important traits that define each domain.
• Suitable for adolescents and adults ages 12 years and older and
adults with lower education levels.
• Introduces the NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3 (NEO-FFI-3), a
revision of the NEO-FFI.
• New features include the NEO Problems in Living Checklist
(NEO-PLC), the NEO Style Graph Booklet, and the NEO Job
Profiler.
• Includes case studies.
Administration
Applications • 30-40 minutes to administer.
• Qualification Level B or S.
A comprehensive
• All NEO Inventories include parallel forms for self-reports
assessment of (Form S) and observers (Form R).
adolescent and adult • Can be administered orally to individuals with limited literacy
personality
or with visual problems.
• Online administration available 24/7 on PARiConnect.
Demonstrated utility in
• The NEO Software System offers a comprehensive system for
clinical, applied, and
administering the NEO Inventories.
research settings
Useful in vocational Scoring and Reporting
counseling, pre-
employment screening, • Hand score in 15 minutes.
and educational • Scoring and reporting are available online 24/7
psychology via PARiConnect.
• The NEO Software System generates unlimited reports.
Appropriate for ages 12
years and older
Reliability, Validity, & Norms
• New normative data is included in the NEO PI-3.
• Separate normative data is available for adolescents (ages 12-20 years) and adults (21
years and older).
• Internal consistency for NEO-PI-3 Form S domains and facets range from .89 to .93 for the
five domains and from .54 to .83 (Median = .76) for the 30 facets. Similar, but slightly
higher, values were found for Form R.
• Correlations among scales from several instruments assessing normal and abnormal
personality traits, including measures by Eysenck, Tellegen, Cloninger, and Livesley,
showed that all these scales could be subsumed by a five-factor structure that
corresponded closely to the Five-Factor Model, and NEO domain scores were among the
best definers of each of these factors.
