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NEO Personality Inventory

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

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Revised NEO personality inventory

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The Revised NEO Personality Inventory, or NEO-PI-R (Costa & McCrae, 1992), is the second revision of a psychological measure of personality, the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Personality Inventory, based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality (FFM) (Digman, 1990). The FFM postulates five basic dimensions of personality that summarize a person’s emotional, interpersonal, motivational, attitudinal, and experiential styles. The five dimensions – neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness – are the five factors of the NEO-PI-R. There are six facets within each factor that further distinguish aspects of each domain. There are eight questions representing each of the 30 facets. Finally, three items assess validity of the respondent’s answers.

The manual states that the NEO-PI-R is appropriate for people ages 17 years and older but that it is not to be used with individuals who have disorders that...

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, 66160, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Monica Kurylo & Jeremy Stevenson

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

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Kurylo, M., Stevenson, J. (2011). NEO Personality Inventory. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_2000

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