Fact Sheet NEO PI-3
Fact Sheet NEO PI-3
(NEO™ PI-3)
Paul T. Costa, Jr., PhD, and Robert R. McCrae, PhD.
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
• 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.