PID5BF+M Instrument

Welcome to the resources page for the modified brief form of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID5BF+M; Bach et al., 2020). This questionnaire contains 36 items. It scores 18 facets of 2 items each and 6 domains, each the average of 3 facet scores. The items take their wording from the PID-5, and the forms use the PID-5 instructions and response options. Here you can download ready-to-use versions of the instrument or use 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)2026-10-03 English (US Paper)2026-10-03

📊 Qualtrics Import

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

English (TXT File)2026-10-03

Import Instructions

🏥 REDCap Import

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

English (ZIP File)2026-10-03

Import Instructions

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Explore the R Package Features

The hitop package provides a toolkit for working with the PID5BF+M. If you are comfortable using R, you can use these functions in your workflow.

📋 Instrument Information

Access the item dictionary, the facet keys and the facet-to-domain map directly from the package namespace.

Items Facets Domains

🛠️ 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

Score the facets and domains with version = "BFPM", or compute alpha and omega for each facet and domain. Omega is NA for the 2-item facets.

Score PID5BF+M Reliability

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
pid5bfpm_A4.docx	DOCX (A4 paper)	1.0	2026-10-03
pid5bfpm_qualtrics.txt	Qualtrics import	1.0	2026-10-03
pid5bfpm_redcap.zip	REDCap import	1.0	2026-10-03
pid5bfpm_US.docx	DOCX (US paper)	1.0	2026-10-03

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

2026-10-03

First build of the PID5BF+M forms: the 36 items in BF+M order with their PID-5 text, and the instructions and response options of the other PID-5 forms.
pid5bfpm_A4.docx, pid5bfpm_qualtrics.txt, pid5bfpm_redcap.zip, pid5bfpm_US.docx