NEO Personality Inventory-3™ (NEO-PI-3™) – Normative Update

Purpose: Provides a detailed assessment of general personality traits using the five main dimensions of personality. 
Age: 12 years to 99+ years
Time: 5 to 30 minutes
Format: Online only

A Comprehensive Measure of Adolescent and Adult Personality Using the Five Personality Domains

The NEO Inventories are measures of the five major dimensions of personality and the most important facets that define each dimension. As some of the most well-known and empirically substantiated measures of personality, they have demonstrated utility in clinical, applied, and research settings.

The NEO PI-3 (Normative Update) is a 240-item measure of all five personality domains—Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E), and Openness to Experience (O)—as well as 30 subordinate facets.

The NEO now provides enhanced features to help you better serve your clients.

Normative Update Features and benefits

• Inclusive. With an updated normative sample collected in 2024 representative of the current U.S. Census, the normative update of the NEO Inventories applies to a larger, more diverse population.
• More reliable and valid. Now with updated data which demonstrates test-retest reliability and the option to generate scores for the new Schinka, Kinder, and Kremer (SKK) validity scales of Positive Presentation Management (PPM) and Negative Presentation Management (NPM).
• Streamlined components for adults and adolescents. Self-Report Form, Informant Report Form–Male, Informant Report Form–Female.
• Updated Professional Manual. The new manual includes several useful supplemental materials, including a blank profile form that allows professionals to plot T scores from multiple raters.
• Administration & scoring options. Scoring and report generation are exclusively through PARiConnect.

Additional features included in the Interpretive Report and Professional Manual

• The NEO Style Graphs are provided in the Interpretive Report and provide more extensive feedback that considers configurations of factors. The T score for the vertical and horizontal axis, which are based on domain, are located at the top of each graph. The point of their intersection is indicated with an X. This point identifies the style of the respondent, and the description associated with that quadrant of the graph characterizes their style.
• The NEO Problems in Living Checklist, included as a template in the professional manual, is a tool designed to help clinicians assess problematic behaviors and symptoms. The checklist is designed to serve as a guide for a more focused clinical interview.
• The NEO Inventories Job Profiler, included as a template in the professional manual, is a tool designed to describe 30 personality traits relevant to job performance. The form is completed by expert judges, such as job analysts, supervisors, or employees who are successful in the role. These experts rate the traits to define weights, which are then applied to a prospective candidate’s T scores.
• The NEO Feedback Summary provides direct feedback to the client about their responses across the five broad factors of personality. Available only on PARiConnect.

Work in a career/employment setting?

The career-focused NEO Professional Development Report (PDR) can be generated via PARiConnect. After administering the PDR i-Admin, you have the option of generating either the Management Planning Report or Individual Planning Report.

• These reports address the personal characteristics that have the highest potential for yielding job-relevant information.
• Provide observations about the individual’s strengths and limitations in four critical areas: problem-solving skills; planning, organizing, and implementation skills; style of relating to others; and personal style.