PID-5 Instrument

Welcome to the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) instrument resources page. This questionnaire contains 220 items and can be used to score 5 domain scales and 25 facet subscales indexing different aspects of personality pathology. Here you can download ready-to-use versions of the instrument or explore the powerful tools provided by the hitop R package to customize, score, and analyze your data.

Ready-to-Use Downloads

Choose the format that best fits your immediate research needs.

📄 Printable Document

Use these Microsoft Word documents for printing, paper administration, or sending to the IRB.

English (A4 Paper)2026-07-31 English (US Paper)2026-07-31

📊 Qualtrics Import

Use this specially formatted text file to easily import the instrument directly into your Qualtrics surveys.

English (TXT File)2026-07-16

Import Instructions

🏥 REDCap Import

Use this compressed archive file to import the instrument as a new instrument in your REDCap project.

English (ZIP File)2026-07-16

Import Instructions

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Explore the R Package Features

The hitop package provides a complete toolkit for working with the PID-5. If you are comfortable using R, you can leverage these functions to streamline your workflow.

📋 Instrument Information

Access the complete item dictionary and structural hierarchy directly from the package namespace.

Items Scales

🛠️ Custom File Generation

Need to change the formatting, adapt the instructions, or translate the text? Build customized DOCX, Qualtrics, and REDCap files programmatically.

Printable Qualtrics REDCap

🧮 Scoring & Reliability

Calculate subscales, handle reverse-coding, and generate reliability metrics in one step, or access the underlying internal consistency functions directly.

Score PID-5 Validity Scales Alpha Reliability Omega Reliability

📊 Example Datasets

Test your analysis pipelines using built-in datasets of simulated respondent data.

Simulated Data

Versions

Every download button above shows its file’s build date; a new build date means the distributed file changed. The instrument itself is version 1.0.

Current builds & version history

Current builds

File	Format	Instrument version	Build date
pid5_A4.docx	DOCX (A4 paper)	1.0	2026-07-31
pid5_qualtrics.txt	Qualtrics import	1.0	2026-07-16
pid5_redcap.zip	REDCap import	1.0	2026-07-16
pid5_US.docx	DOCX (US paper)	1.0	2026-07-31

If your downloaded file shows an older build date, simply re-download it to get the latest build. The full build manifest (including file checksums) ships in the package as hitop_artifacts.

Version history

2026-07-31

Response-option legend split across two header lines (values 0 and 1 on the first, 2 and 3 on the second) so no option phrase breaks mid-phrase; legend wording, values, and labels are unchanged.
pid5_A4.docx, pid5_US.docx

2026-07-16

Versioning system introduced: files renamed from the _1.0_ filename scheme and DOCX footers gain a build stamp.
pid5_A4.docx, pid5_qualtrics.txt, pid5_redcap.zip, pid5_US.docx