Comparing the NEO-FFI and Saucierʹs Mini-Markers as measures of the Big Five

The NEO-FFI (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and Saucierʹs adjective Mini-Markers (1994) were compared as measures of the Five Factor Model. Confirmatory factor analyses and principal components analyses followed by correlations found discrepancies between the two measures and corroborated previous assertions that the lack of a simple factor structure makes it difficult to use confirmatory techniques to examine personality models.