Welcome to the Performance Personality Test. I have designed this test to provide high quality, highly scientific personality advice and insight at a low accessible cost. Typically a test like this would cost in the range of £70+ with a full downloadable report. The downloadable report you get from completing this test will give you tips on how your personality can help you problem solve, plan and organise, relate to others, make decisions, regulate your emotions, and handle pressure. The hope is that once you complete the test and download the report you will have an insight that will make you more self aware and better able to work with the people around you. You may even want to get others to do the test too so you can see how you compliment each other.

This personality test is based on The Big Five Personality Traits. They are the current gold standard in personality assessment and are universally applicable to all human beings. They are the 5 personality traits that make up all personalities that we currently understand and measure. Every person you meet falls on a spectrum on each of the five personality traits. The traits are Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.

Each of these personality traits has a distinct contribution to performance and thus we can understand what benefits and blind spots you bring to a performance setting and how you can get the best out of yourself and others by understanding what their personality brings to the table.

The Performance Personality Test is a 100-question test which measures the big five personality traits. Each of the items has been derived from the International Personality Item Pool developed by Goldberg (1992).

The program generates a report that will classify you as low, average, or high depending on whether you score in the lowest 30%, middle 40% of highest 30% of scores. Your numerical scores will be reported and graphed as estimates. It is important to keep in mind that low, average, or high does not mean a score is either good or bad. All personality traits are useful in certain situations and they have evolved in us to be useful to survival and our life. A particular trait may be neutral in one situation but extremely useful to accomplish a task in another situations, or it may be detrimental in a completely different situation.

A personality trait is described relative to other people and is based on the answers that you give. You will have a trait to a more or less of a degree and can be distinguishable between people. The report is generated to describe you based on how you might be described by others.

As with any personality test, scores and descriptions are approximations and whilst the high and low scores are usually accurate, average scores close to boundaries might misclassify you as average when you could be high or low in a trait. The report is an approximation of the answers to the questions you give and is a description of how you may typically act, it is not a concrete explanation of how you will act in every situation all the time.

You may not full agree with everything in the test and that’s ok. Think about what you agree with and what you disagree with and put everything into practice.

All the best with your personality journey and I hope that you get something unique from the test.

Matthew Cunliffe
Performance Psychologist
Director and Creator