Cross-cultural translation and adaptation of the Danish version of the brief version of the 10-item Big Five Inventory.

Background: Personality traits are associated with pain-related beliefs and coping strategies, and different chronic conditions are linked through specific personality profiles. This highlights the importance of having valid and reliable measures of personality traits for use in clinical and research settings when assessing patients in chronic pain.

Purpose: To translate and cross-culturally adapt the 10-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-10) into Danish.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Danish version of the Big Five Inventory - a dual-panel approach.

Background and aims Assessing personality in research can be of importance, especially due to the potential relationship between different personality traits and the manifestation of symptoms in different clinical conditions. Therefore, it is important to have valid and reliable tools that allow for the assessment of personality traits. In this study, the aim was to translate and culturally adapt the Big Five Inventory (BFI) to the Danish language.