The Facet MAP was developed to address one major limitation in personality assessment: the lack of a relatively comprehensive, non-redundant, set of narrow personality facets. All lists prior to the Facet MAP either miss important facets or contain numerous versions of facets. The items, definitions, and user manual can be found via the homepage.
Version 1 of the Facet-level Multidimensional Assessment of Personality (Facet MAP) provides an open-access tool to assess 70 narrow personality traits.
The Facet MAP, version 1, was developed, by analysing 1,772 personality items from many of the major omnibus personality inventories (e.g., NEO-PI-R; HEXACO, 16PF), by a conceptual review of 706 additional scales found within the literature, and the development of new scales which were subjected to a series of rigorous psychometric evaluations. This work spanned the better part of a decade and included two Ph.D.’s worth of work and a whole lot more.
The use of an iterative, multi-stage, multi-method approach, has ensured that the Facet MAP covers most existing facet scales within the literature and has approximately double the number of facets identified in most other taxonomies. Overall, the Facet MAP provides the most comprehensive, fine-grained, and non-redundant assessment of human personality, to date
For full details of the development of the Facet Map, version 1, please see the following paper and associated supplementary materials:
FacetMap.org 