The Big Five model of personality in Bangladesh: examining the Ten-Item Personality Inventory

Researchers, over the world, often create very brief measures of Big Five personality dimensions, so that they can assess people's personality in a reasonably short period of time. The most prominent and well-established measure among all brief personality measures is the 'Ten Item Personality Inventory' (TIPI). The present study aimed to translate, adapt, and validate the TIPI for use in the Bangladeshi culture. After completing the standardized translation procedure, the Bangla version of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI-B) was examined in a study including 662 Bangladeshi adults. Though an exploratory factor analysis with one half of the sample (n = 330) had explained 77.53% of the total variance, it did not show the scale's five dimensions as independent with two items for each. Acceptable goodness of fit indices (chi(2)/df = 3.177, GFI =.960, CFI = .935, TLI = .937, SRMR = .061, and RMSEA = .76) were found for the scale through a confirmatory factor analysis performed on the second half of the sample (n = 332). Acceptable internal consistencies, significant test-retest reliabilities, and convergent and discriminant validities were established in the scale through different statistical analyses. Thus, the TIPI-B with its five dimensions can be used as a valid and reliable measure to assess the personality of Bangladeshi people.