These ten statements form the preliminary IPIP Gregariousness facet. “Gregariousness” is the source’s academic label for this particular mix of preferences involving groups, parties, involving other people, crowds, solitude, and quiet. The scale does not measure social skill, friendliness, popularity, relationship quality, loneliness, or a fixed introvert or extravert type.
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TraitSpring uses the public-domain 10-item preliminary IPIP Gregariousness scale, described by the source as measuring a construct similar to the NEO-PI-R Gregariousness (E2) facet. The official comparison table reports five positively and five negatively keyed items, a mean item intercorrelation of .28, coefficient alpha of .79, and an uncorrected correlation of .78 with the comparison scale. These group-level development statistics do not establish the precision, stability, or truth of one individual result, and this is not the proprietary NEO assessment.
Very Inaccurate through Very Accurate receive 1–5 points. The first five items in TraitSpring’s fixed order are scored directly; the final five are reverse scored from 5 to 1. The keyed values are summed for a total from 10 to 50, and the report also shows the average keyed response out of 5. TraitSpring’s less, mixed, and more positions describe locations on the possible response range, not author cutoffs, norms, percentiles, or population rankings.
10-item preliminary IPIP representation of Gregariousness (E2)
International Personality Item Pool; comparison scale described as similar to NEO-PI-R Gregariousness (E2)
Assessment v1.0.0 · Source links checked at publication on September 21, 2026
International Personality Item Pool — public domain; items and scales may be used for any commercial or noncommercial purpose without permission or a fee
A continuous summary of how strongly statements about large parties, talking with many people, joining or involving a group, crowded settings, solitude, and quiet fit your current self-description. It describes this answer pattern rather than a social identity or ability.
Important limits
This ten-item self-report is a snapshot of how statements about groups, parties, crowds, solitude, and quiet fit today. It is not a percentile, population ranking, social-skill, confidence, popularity, friendship, relationship-quality, loneliness, social-anxiety, teamwork, leadership, or mental-health test. It is not a diagnosis, fixed introvert or extravert type, or basis for employment, education, clinical, insurance, safety, relationship screening, or other high-stakes decisions. Higher is not better, and lower does not establish a deficit.
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