Mini Ipip Scale Activity 1
Mini Ipip Scale Activity 1
BSIT-1A
Instructions: Below are phrases describing people’s behaviors. Please use the rating scale below
to describe how accurately each statement describes you. Describe yourself as you generally are
now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in
relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. Please
read each statement carefully and put a number from 1 to 5 next to it to describe how accurately
the statement describes you. Answer the guide questions at the end of the activity.
1 = Very inaccurate
2 = Moderately inaccurate
3 = Neither inaccurate nor accurate
4 = Moderately accurate
5 = Very accurate
Scoring: The first thing you must do is to subtract your answers in numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20 from 6, then replace your answers with the difference. So if you put a 4 in any of
the items (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20) for instance, subtract it by 6 and you will get a
difference of 2.
Next, you need to add up the scores for each of the five OCEAN scales (including the reversed
numbers where relevant). Each OCEAN score will be the sum of four items. Place the sum next
to each scale below.
Compare your scores to the norms below to see where you stand on each scale. If you are low on
a trait, it means you are the opposite of the trait label. For example, low on Extraversion is
Introversion, low on Openness is Conventional, and low on Agreeableness is Assertive.
Guide Questions: Answer the following questions in an essay form with a maximum of 300
words. Write your answers in a clean sheet of paper. (10 POINTS EACH)
1. How do you describe your scores on Mini IPIP Scale? Do you think the results are
accurate? Why?
Yes. In my own beliefs, personality changes through time. Just like our body, our mind also changes
through time. We mature and grow. Everytime we made mistakes, we learned from it and change
ourselves. Personality is one of the things we change in order to grow and interact to one another
therefore, it changes as we grow older.
We develop our personality by interacting with interactions from the people around us like our peers,
loved ones, etc. It also develops by knowing who we are.
Honestly, it was a difficult question. Sometimes by the changes we do in order to grow, we forgot
ourselves. We got confused on who we actually are. It depends on how we think about ourselves.
However, if I answer that question, I think I’m getting to know myself each day. I’m an average person
who’s just typically living and surviving each day passed.