Personality Facets
Discover detail within each trait
320,128 U.S. adults ages 19 to 69 who volunteered on John A. Johnson’s research website and answered the original statements, the published comparison group for your facet and trait scores
Your 30 personality facets show where two parts of the same trait point in different directions, such as being exact about deadlines but loose about tidiness. You can see what each contrast may mean for the people around you.
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Step 1 of 12
Describe yourself as you are now, not as you think you should be or hope to become.
Statement 1: You worry about things.
Statement 2: You make friends easily.
Statement 3: You have a vivid imagination.
Statement 4: You trust others.
Statement 5: You complete tasks successfully.
Statement 6: You get angry before you can think about it.
Statement 7: You love large parties.
Statement 8: You believe art is important.
Statement 9: You look at people in terms of what they can do for you.
Statement 10: You enjoy straightening a room.
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What decades of research reveal
These findings come from published research on personality traits. They describe patterns across large groups, not predictions about what will happen to any one person.
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Traits predicted life outcomes as well as family money
Personality traits predicted how long people lived, whether marriages ended, and what work people ended up doing about as well as family money and cognitive ability did.
Roberts, Kuncel, Shiner, Caspi & Goldberg (2007). Perspectives on Psychological Science 2(4), 313–345.
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Across five occupations, conscientiousness predicted performance
Conscientiousness, which covers planning ahead, staying organized, and finishing what you start, predicted job performance across five kinds of work, while extraversion related to it in managing and sales.
Barrick & Mount (1991). Personnel Psychology 44(1), 1–26.
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Higher conscientiousness went with slightly longer life
Across 20 long-term studies, the correlation between conscientiousness and how long people lived was real but small, at 0.11. Persistence and being organized were the strongest parts of the trait.
Kern & Friedman (2008). Health Psychology 27(5), 505–512.
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Conscientiousness added as much as intelligence
Across studies of more than 70,000 students, conscientiousness added as much as intelligence to predicting later academic performance after earlier school results were accounted for.
Poropat (2009). Psychological Bulletin 135(2), 322–338.
What does it measure?
Each broad trait splits into six narrower facets. Two people can have the same trait score while showing very different patterns inside it.
Extraversion
How much you tend to gain energy from people, start conversations, and feel comfortable being noticed. This is about your usual social pace—not how friendly, confident, or capable you are.
- Making friends
- Crowd comfort
- Taking charge
- Life pace
- Thrill seeking
- Joy
Agreeableness
How much you tend to notice other people’s needs, make room for their point of view, and protect the relationship while making decisions. This can bring warmth and cooperation—but it can also make your own needs easier to overlook.
- Trust in people
- Fair dealing
- Helping others
- Keeping peace
- Humility
- Concern for people struggling
Conscientiousness
How much you naturally organize your time, plan ahead, and follow through. Structure can turn intentions into progress, while too much of it can make a day feel less flexible.
- Task confidence
- Tidiness
- Keeping promises
- Hard work
- Follow-through
- Careful decisions
Emotional stability
How steady you tend to feel when circumstances are uncertain, demanding, or disappointing. This reflects sensitivity to pressure and shifts in mood, not whether you care deeply or have faced difficult things.
- Calm outlook
- Even temper
- Steady mood
- Social ease
- Self-restraint
- Calm under pressure
Openness
How much you enjoy possibilities, imagination, unusual connections, and thinking beyond what is immediately in front of you. It does not measure intelligence or ability; it describes where your attention naturally likes to wander.
- Vivid imagination
- Love of beauty
- Emotional awareness
- Welcoming change
- Love of ideas
- Questioning tradition
What is this assessment?
120 statements
Ratings use the scale from Very Inaccurate to Very Accurate, 10 at a time
5 traits
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Emotional stability
- Openness
30 facets
Each trait has 6 facets, placed on a 0 to 100 scale
600,000+ people online
Completed the original statements on the author’s research website
320,128 U.S. adults
Ages 19 to 69, from the same research website
You rate 120 plain-English statements from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool. John A. Johnson published this questionnaire in 2014. You answer four statements for each facet, in twelve steps of ten, using the same five choices as the Personality Type assessment, from Very Inaccurate to Very Accurate.
You see each facet on its own 0 to 100 scale beside your score for the broader trait. You can compare each facet with the typical range for 320,128 U.S. adults. You can review all 30 facets and your top findings. The full report explains each trait’s six facets, where they pull against each other, and what that can mean at work and with people.
Why take it here?
More than one number
Two people can land at the same broad score while one keeps every promise and the other spots every small error. Thirty narrower facets show which parts of that trait stand out in your report.
Where friction starts
You may recognize places where a choice feels responsible to you but leaves others feeling overlooked, rushed, or constrained. Naming that contrast helps you examine the strain without making either side the villain.
What your style costs
You see how those contrasts play out at work and with close relationships, where a private preference can become a shared cost.
No financial risk
Read the full report before deciding, then request everything you paid for it back within 30 days of buying it, without giving a reason or answering questions.
What the full report shows about you
The paintings, sections, and reading times here come from a made-up person’s report. Your report would be written from your own answers.
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Your trait contrasts
The trait that pulls you in two directions, and what one score would hide.
- Where one trait pulls two ways
about 1 min
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Your facet results
What each trait looks like facet by facet, at work, and with people close to you.
- Extraversion: your six facets
- Agreeableness: your six facets
- Conscientiousness: your six facets
- Emotional stability: your six facets
- Openness: your six facets
about 22 min
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Your social context and answers
How your clearest facets can land with people unlike you, and what tends to help.
- How you come across to people unlike you
about 7 min
Contents
9 sections, 8,867 words, about 37 minutes.
- About this report about 1 min
Your trait contrasts
Where one trait pulls two ways about 1 minYour facet results
Extraversion: your six facets about 5 min- Agreeableness: your six facets about 5 min
- Conscientiousness: your six facets about 3 min
- Emotional stability: your six facets about 4 min
- Openness: your six facets about 5 min
Your social context and answers
How you come across to people unlike you about 7 min- Your answers about 6 min
Common questions
Who am I compared with?
You are compared with 320,128 U.S. adults ages 19 to 69, average age 28, who volunteered after finding John A. Johnson’s psychology website and answered there in the 12 or so years before 2014. Kajonius and Johnson published an average and a spread for each facet and trait, so this report shows a typical range, half a standard deviation either side of the group’s average, instead of a percentile. These adults answered the original statements with the same five choices you had, from Very Inaccurate to Very Accurate. The authors caution that volunteers on a psychology website may not represent the country as a whole, and they judged Helping others, Emotional awareness and Love of ideas likely unrepresentatively high. The Personality Type assessment compares the five traits with 596,850 people who answered the original version of its statements online (2016–2018).
Can I use this for hiring?
No. Nothing here was built or checked for choosing, promoting, or screening out people. The assessment also measures no ability, intelligence, or employability.
What happens to my answers?
We keep your personal information private and never sell it, while anything that identifies you goes only to the companies needed to run the site and take a payment. To delete your account and everything saved in it, email us at hello@nomigram.com from the account’s own address.
How do these assessments compare with other sites?
The five traits in Nomigram’s Personality Facets assessment are what researchers call the Big Five or the five-factor model. Its 30 facets come from the IPIP-NEO-120, a public-domain set of 120 statements published by John A. Johnson in 2014. The assessment uses four statements for each facet, with six facets inside each of the five traits. This gives you more detail about the patterns behind each trait score.
Nomigram is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the Myers & Briggs Foundation, The Myers-Briggs Company or NERIS Analytics Limited, and the names are used here only to explain how our assessments relate to them. MBTI, Myers-Briggs and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Myers & Briggs Foundation, Inc. in the United States and other countries. 16Personalities is a trademark of NERIS Analytics Limited.
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