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The purpose of this study was to develop a personality inventory based on five factor model and investigate relationships between the five factors(neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness) and various kinds of criterion such as school performance, school adaptation, and career selection. A Big Five personality inventory which was consist of 300 items were constructed from 4 preliminary surveys. The inventory and criterion reference tests were administrated to 1,814 middle school students and 2,906 high school students. The major results of this study were as follows. First, the reliability coefficients of the inventory were very high. The range of Cronbach alpha coefficients of five factors was .89 - .94. Second, factor analysis using varimax rotation demonstrated that 27 among the 30 facet scales of the inventory, which constituted 5 factors, had significant first loadings(i.e., > .30) meaning that the proposed factor structure was valid. Third, correlational analyses showed that 'conscientiousness' factor tended to be positively and significantly correlated with school grades, whereas 'neuroticism' factor tended to be negatively correlated. Forth, 'neuroticism' factor tended to be negatively related with school adaptation measures, whereas 4 other factors tended to be positively related. Fifth, correlational analyses showed that 5 factors predicted the variance of career selection criterion measures in some degree. These findings indicated that the newly developed Big Five personality inventory may be useful in educational and vocational counseling situations. Finally, some of theoretical and practical significance of this study were discussed.

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