International Personality Item Pool HEXACO Personality Inventory (IPIP-HEXACO)

The six dimensions of the HEXACO model are Honesty-Humility, which concerns sincerity, fairness, modesty and lack of greed; Emotionality, which concerns fearfulness, anxiety, dependence on others and sentimentality; Extraversion; Agreeableness, which here centers on forgiveness, gentleness, flexibility and patience; Conscientiousness; and Openness to Experience. The full inventory describes each through several facets, so that, for example, a person who is patient but unforgiving, or sincere but not modest, can be described accurately.

Ashton and Lee (2007) proposed the model after lexical studies in many languages repeatedly found six rather than five major factors in the words people use to describe personality. The sixth factor, Honesty-Humility, captures a set of tendencies concerning fairness and exploitation that the five-factor model spreads thinly across other domains. Ashton, Lee and Goldberg (2007) wrote public-domain versions of the scales with items from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP).

Each facet and each dimension is scored separately. Higher scores describe a stronger version of the tendency, and lower scores describe its opposite pole. Honesty-Humility deserves particular attention: low scores describe a greater willingness to manipulate or bend rules for personal gain and a stronger sense of entitlement, and high scores describe sincerity and modesty. Emotionality differs from Neuroticism in that it does not include anger, which in this model belongs with low Agreeableness.

The inventory is used in research on ethics, cooperation and workplace behavior, where Honesty-Humility often adds information beyond the Big Five, and in personal development. On this site, the IPIP-HEXACO-60 is a shorter form, the IPIP-NEO-120 and Mini-IPIP follow the five-factor model, and the IPIP Dark Triad describes manipulative and callous traits that overlap with low Honesty-Humility.

The six-dimensional HEXACO structure—Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience—was recovered from lexical studies of personality-descriptive adjectives across several languages (Lee & Ashton, 2004; Ashton & Lee, 2007). The IPIP–HEXACO scales operationalize the model with public-domain items and converge with the proprietary HEXACO-PI-R, with Honesty-Humility capturing variance beyond the Big Five.

“Don't pretend to be more than I am.”

Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.

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