| Theorist/ Inventory | I Surgency | II Agreeableness | III Conscientiousness | IV Emotional Stability | V Intellect/ Openness to Experience | |
| Bales | Dominant- Initiative | Social- Emotional Orientation | Task Orientation | |||
| Block | Low Ego Control | High Ego Control | Ego Resiliency | |||
| Buss & Plomin EASI | Activity Sociability | Impulsivity (r) | Emotionality (r) | |||
| Cattell 16PF | Exvia (vs. Invia | Pathemia (vs. Cortertia) | Super Ego Strength | Adjustment vs. Anxiety | Independence vs. Subduedness | |
| Comrey CPS | Extraversion and Activity | Femininity | Orderliness and Social Conformity | Emotional Stability | Rebelliousness | |
| Costa & McCrae NEO-PI | Extraversion | Agreeableness | Conscientiousness | Neuroticsm (r) | Openness | |
| Eysenck EPQ | Extraversion | Psychoticism (r) | Neuroticism (r) | |||
| Goldberg FFI | Extraversion | Agreeableness | Conscientiousness | Emotional Stability | Openness | |
| Gough CPI Factors | Extraversion | Consensuality | Control | Flexibility | ||
| Guilford | Social Activity | Paranoid Disposition (r) | Thinking Introversion | Emotional Stability | ||
| Hogan HPI | Ambition and Sociability | Likeability | Prudence | Adjustment | Intellectance | |
| Jackson PRF | Outgoing, Social Leadership | Self Protective Orientation (r) | Work Orientation | Dependence (r) | Aesthetic- Intellectual | |
| Myers-Briggs | Extraversion vs. Introversion | Feeling vs. Thinking | Judging vs. Perception | Intuition vs. Sensing | ||
| Tellegen MPQ | Positive Emotionality | Constraint | Negative Emotionality | Absorption | ||
| Wiggins IAS | Power/ Dominance | Love/ Warmth | ||||
| Zuckerman | Extraversion | Psychoticism/ Impulsivity/ Sensation Seeking (r) | Neuroticism (r) | P-Imp-SS | ||