<P> The predictive power of the Big Five personality traits is robust across life domains: personal, interpersonal, and social or institutional . Recent research indicated that personality traits may be equally strong predictors of mortality (adding as much as five years to one's life), divorce, and job performance as socioeconomic status and cognitive ability . High neuroticism precedes the development of all common mental disorders . However, research in support of this finding is limited and further evidence is required to fully uncover the strength of the predictive power of personality traits on life outcomes . Social and contextual parameters also play a role in outcomes and the interaction between the two is not yet fully understood . </P> <P> Several measures of the Big Five exist: </P> <Ul> <Li> International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) </Li> <Li> NEO-PI - R </Li> <Li> The Ten - Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) and the Five Item Personality Inventory (FIPI) are very abbreviated rating forms of the Big Five personality traits . </Li> <Li> Self - descriptive sentence questionnaires </Li> <Li> Lexical questionnaires </Li> <Li> Self - report questionnaires </Li> <Li> Relative - scored Big 5 measure </Li> </Ul> <Li> International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) </Li>

The big five personality traits are measured on a scale of