How the baseline is measured.

The five broad dimensions

• Extraversion — Social Engagement: social initiative, expressiveness, comfort with stimulation.
• Agreeableness — Interpersonal Orientation: warmth, cooperation, concern for others.
• Conscientiousness — Organization & Follow-Through: planning, order, follow-through.
• Emotional Stability — how steadily emotions run. This is a personality dimension, not a mental-health diagnosis.
• Intellect / Imagination — Curiosity & Imagination: openness to ideas and abstract thinking.

Scoring

Each of the five scales has 10 items, each answered on a 1–5 scale. Positive-keyed items keep their value; reverse-keyed items are recoded as (6 − response). The 10 keyed values are summed to produce a raw score between 10 and 50. Pattern then linearly rescales that raw score to a display value between 0 and 100:

transformed_score = ((raw_score − 10) / 40) × 100

What the numbers do not mean

• The displayed number is your position within the instrument's possible range.
• It is not a population percentile.
• No normative comparison to any reference group is currently applied.
• Results are not diagnoses.
• Assessment results may vary with context and self-perception.
• Pattern treats assessments as one source of evidence rather than absolute truth.

Source & citation

Goldberg, L. R. (1992). The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Psychological Assessment, 4, 26–42. Items retrieved from the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org). IPIP items are in the public domain. Pattern did not create or validate the instrument.