PID-5-BF Instrument

Welcome to the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form (PID-5-BF) instrument resources page. This questionnaire contains 25 items and can be used to score 5 domains scales 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) English (US Paper)

📊 Qualtrics Import

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

English (TXT File)

🏥 REDCap Import

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

English (ZIP File) Import Instructions

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Explore the R Package Features

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

📋 Instrument Information

Access the complete item dictionary, structural hierarchy, and subscale definitions 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-BF Validity Scales Alpha Reliability Omega Reliability

📊 Example Datasets

Test your analysis pipelines using built-in datasets, including a real validation sample and simulated respondent data.

Simulated Data