Artistic interests
A facet of openness to experience. Four items in the IPIP-NEO-120.
The second facet of openness is liking for art, music, poetry and beauty: believing that art matters, noticing beauty where others do not, and enjoying galleries and verse. It is a facet of appreciation, not of talent, and people high on it are as often audiences as makers.
What it does not mean
A high score is not artistic ability, and a low score is not philistinism. The facet records how much a person values and notices art and beauty; whether they can draw or play is another matter, and so is whether they are cultured in any snobbish sense.
A low score does not mean a person has no taste. Low scorers like what they like; they do not seek out art or find it important.
Four items make a short scale. A facet score moves more between attempts than the 24-item domain score, and it describes a tendency in ordinary life as the person reports it, not a diagnosis of anything.
High and low in daily life
High. People high on this facet say they believe in the importance of art, see beauty in things others might not notice, and enjoy poetry and art museums. In daily life that shows as time spent in galleries and at concerts, an eye for light and colour on an ordinary street, and strong reactions to music that others find hard to explain.
Low. People low on this facet say they do not like poetry and do not enjoy going to art museums. In daily life that shows as indifference to decoration, a preference for things that work over things that are beautiful, and some puzzlement at the fuss made over art. Many low scorers respond strongly to the natural world or to craft without calling it art.
Parent domain
- Openness to experience: the broad trait this facet belongs to, with five sibling facets.
What the research says it predicts
Aesthetic openness, which this facet measures, predicts creative achievement in the arts, where intellect predicts it in the sciences. (Kaufman and others, 2016)
Artistic interests belong to the openness aspect, with imagination and emotionality. (DeYoung, Quilty and Peterson, 2007)
Women score a little higher than men on the openness aspect, which includes artistic interests, while men score higher on intellect, in a large internet sample. (Weisberg, DeYoung and Hirsh, 2011)
Where people fall
The spread of scores
Curve height shows how common each score is; the darker middle holds half of all people. If you have taken a test on this device, your marker is drawn on.
IPIP-NEO-120, artistic interests, 4 items
410,376 people
The other facets of openness to experience
Sources and licence
Kaufman, S. B., Quilty, L. C., Grazioplene, R. G., Hirsh, J. B., Gray, J. R., Peterson, J. B., & DeYoung, C. G. (2016). Openness to experience and intellect differentially predict creative achievement in the arts and sciences. Journal of Personality, 84(2), 248-258. doi:10.1111/jopy.12156
DeYoung, C. G., Quilty, L. C., & Peterson, J. B. (2007). Between facets and domains: 10 aspects of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(5), 880-896. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.93.5.880
Weisberg, Y. J., DeYoung, C. G., & Hirsh, J. B. (2011). Gender differences in personality across the ten aspects of the Big Five. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 178. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00178
Instrument: IPIP-NEO-120. Johnson, J. A. (2014). Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory: Development of the IPIP-NEO-120. Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 78-89. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2014.05.003 Key: https://ipip.ori.org/30FacetNEO-PI-RItems.htm.
Norms: Johnson, J. A. IPIP-NEO-120 public dataset (IPIP120.dat), OSF component wxvth of osf.io/tbmh5, https://osf.io/wxvth/.
Licence: Public domain (IPIP). Permission is granted automatically for any person to use IPIP items for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. https://ipip.ori.org/newPermission.htm
Instrument: IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers. Goldberg, L. R. (1992). The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Psychological Assessment, 4(1), 26-42. doi:10.1037/1040-3590.4.1.26 Key: https://ipip.ori.org/newBigFive5broadKey.htm.
Norms: Open-Source Psychometrics Project, IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers responses (IPIP-FFM-data-8Nov2018.zip), 1,015,342 responses collected 2016 to 2018, https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/.
Licence: Public domain (IPIP). Permission is granted automatically for any person to use IPIP items for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. https://ipip.ori.org/newPermission.htm