24 questions across 1 scale, about 5 minutes|Published scoring key from IPIP-NEO Agreeableness scale, 24 items across six facets, not invented
Authors: International Personality Item Pool; facet structure after Johnson (2014), IPIP-NEO-120
Licence: Public domain IPIP items, free to use without permission
What this test measures
Where you sit on the agreeableness scale overall
Six facets: trust, morality, altruism, cooperation, modesty and sympathy
Whether a low score comes from scepticism about people, from competitiveness, or from comfort with conflict
Agreeableness
Whether your default stance toward other people is cooperative and trusting, or sceptical and competitive.
LowerHigher
High. You assume good intent, you notice when someone is struggling, and you'd rather absorb a cost yourself than create a conflict. People tell you things.
Low. You judge claims on evidence rather than on who made them, and you're comfortable holding a position that makes a room uncomfortable. You negotiate for your own side without flinching.
6 facets
Trust
Morality
Altruism
Cooperation
Modesty
Sympathy
What answering this test looks like
Question 1 of 24
How accurately does this describe you?
Trust others.
1Very inaccurate
2Moderately inaccurate
3Neither accurate nor inaccurate
4Moderately accurate
5Very accurate
One item at a time, keyboard or mouse. Every one of the 24 items is worded this way, and your place is saved as you go.
What this test is
Agreeableness is the A in OCEAN and the trait most distorted by popular writing about it. Articles about low agreeableness tend to be either celebratory, treating it as the secret of successful people, or condemnatory, treating it as a warning sign. The measurement supports neither reading.
What the scale captures is where you default when your interests and someone else's do not line up: toward accommodation or toward your own position. Both defaults have costs. High scorers absorb work and resentment that was not theirs to carry; low scorers spend goodwill they later need.
The items here are the 24 agreeableness items from the IPIP-NEO, so the facets and the keying are the ones the research literature uses, and the items are public domain.
How this test is scored
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24 answers
Each answer you give is a number on the published response scale.
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One scale
Answers belonging to the same scale are added together.
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A band
Each total is read against the bands printed for that scale.
Twenty-four items on a five-point accuracy scale, with reverse-keyed items flipped before summing. The total runs from 24 to 120 and each facet from 4 to 20. The bar shows your position inside that range, not a percentile against a norm group.
Scoring runs in your browser from your own answers. It is deterministic, so the same answers always produce the same result, and no part of it is generated, estimated or inferred.
How accurate this test is
Twenty-four items make the overall score steadier than any single trait in a short five-factor form, where agreeableness usually gets ten items or fewer.
The facets are four items each. Treat a gap of a few points between two facets as nothing and a gap of thirty as real.
Several items on this scale are the kind people answer as they would like to be rather than as they are. If your result looks more accommodating than your last disagreement did, trust the disagreement.
The underlying IPIP facet scales and their published alphas are listed on ipip.ori.org, where the item pool is maintained.
Who this test is for
Worth taking if
Anyone who has been told they are too accommodating, or not accommodating enough
Working out whether a low score comes from scepticism, competitiveness or comfort with conflict
People who want one trait in detail rather than five in outline
Not the right tool for
Detecting manipulation, hostility or dark triad traits, which this scale does not measure
Screening job candidates or assessing other people
Reading a low score as evidence that something is wrong with you
What this test cannot tell you
A low score is not a measure of how pleasant you are to be around, and this scale does not detect hostility, manipulation or cruelty.
Four items per facet is a short scale. Read the facets as a pattern, not as six precise measurements.
The facet named Morality measures straightforwardness, meaning reluctance to use guile, rather than ethics in any broader sense.
Agreeableness is reported differently by men and women on average in many samples, and this test shows a position on the scale rather than a comparison against any norm group.
This is a self-assessment questionnaire, not a diagnostic instrument and not medical advice.
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24 questions, about 5 minutes. Your answers are scored on this device and stored on this device. There is no account to create and nothing is sent to a server. Progress saves as you go, so a long assessment can be finished across more than one sitting.
No sign up, ever. Every item in this assessment comes from IPIP-NEO Agreeableness scale, 24 items across six facets, and the page above tells you exactly how each score is worked out before you answer anything.
Agreeableness: frequently asked questions
What does low agreeableness mean?
That your default in a conflict of interests is your own position rather than the other person's. Low scorers negotiate hard, say no without much discomfort, and are slow to take claims on trust. It is a working style, not a character flaw, and it is not the same as being rude or cold.
What does high agreeableness look like?
Assuming good faith, giving ground easily, and finding genuine reward in helping. High scorers make teams work and are usually the reason a difficult group stays functional. The cost is absorbing work, blame and resentment that was never theirs, and struggling in rooms where somebody has to hold a line.
Is low agreeableness the same as being a bad person?
No. Agreeableness measures orientation toward other people's interests, not ethics or decency. Plenty of scrupulously honest people score low, and the scale cannot distinguish a tough negotiator from someone genuinely unkind. If that second question is the one you are asking, this is the wrong instrument for it.
Is agreeableness the same as being nice?
Not quite. Niceness is social manner and agreeableness is where you default when interests collide. The two often travel together but they come apart cleanly: a warm, friendly person who holds their position under pressure is low-agreeable and good company, and a cold person can still accommodate everyone.
Can agreeableness change over time?
It tends to rise gradually across adult life for most people, alongside conscientiousness. Deliberate change is possible at the facet level more than the trait level: practising a specific behaviour, such as stating a position before asking what others think, moves things further than trying to feel differently.
How accurate is this agreeableness test?
The overall score comes from 24 public-domain IPIP items, which is a longer and steadier measure of this one trait than most online quizzes and than any single trait in a short Big Five form. The six facets are four items each, so read those as a pattern rather than as precise numbers.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
Free, with no account. The items are public domain, the scoring runs in your browser, and nothing is sent to a server. Your answers stay in the browser that produced them unless you choose to share the link.
Is agreeableness a weakness?
Neither end is. High agreeableness is what makes teams work and difficult groups stay functional, and it costs you in rooms where somebody has to hold a line. Low agreeableness holds the line and spends goodwill doing it. Popular writing treats the low end as either the secret of successful people or a warning sign; the measurement supports neither, because both defaults carry a bill.
What is the opposite of agreeableness?
Antagonism, which is the name the research literature gives the low pole. It is one scale rather than two traits, so a low score is not a separate condition but simply the far end of the same dimension. In plain terms it describes someone whose default in a conflict of interests is their own position rather than the other person's.
What is the difference between agreeableness and conscientiousness?
They point at different things. Agreeableness is about other people: whether you default to their interests or your own when the two collide. Conscientiousness is about tasks: how organised, reliable and persistent you are. Someone can be scrupulously reliable and a hard negotiator, or warm and accommodating and hopeless at deadlines. The two are measured separately for exactly that reason.
Where these questions come from
The 24 items and their keying are the agreeableness items of the IPIP-NEO-120 already used on this site, derived from the administration form and checked to give four items per facet. Check the source.
