IPIP-HEXACO Personality Inventory

The IPIP-HEXACO scales (Ashton, Lee, & Goldberg, 2007) are an alternative, public-domain measure of the personality constructs in the HEXACO model — Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience — measured here in the full 240-item form covering all 24 facets, four per domain.

Because the item pool is public domain, this platform administers the published item set verbatim; the norms section lists the reference values used for facet and domain standings. Scores describe normal-range personality and carry no clinical thresholds.

The notes below are reproduced from the platform's psychometrics register for this instrument — the same source-cited reliability, validity, and norms text that accompanies its downloadable report.

Ashton, Lee & Goldberg (2007) report Cronbach's alpha for the 100-item IPIP–HEXACO scales in the Eugene–Springfield Community Sample (N = 411). Domain-level internal consistency is high (typically the .80s–low .90s; e.g. Conscientiousness α = .91, Agreeableness α = .92); the 24 ten-item facet scales show the more modest reliabilities expected of short facet measures.

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.

Per-item means and standard deviations are drawn from Ashton, Lee & Goldberg (2007), Table 1, for the Eugene–Springfield Community Sample (N = 411), on the 1–5 response scale; Cronbach's α used for the confidence range is from Table 2. The result page and this report compare your per-item average for each domain and facet against these published reference values, with a 90% confidence range derived from the standard error of measurement.

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

Item responses are summed within each scale (reverse-keyed items recoded first) and expressed as a population percentile against the cited reference sample, with a reliability-based confidence range where α is published.

Ashton, Lee & Goldberg (2007), Personality and Individual Differences, 42(8), 1515–1526 — IPIP–HEXACO scales, Eugene–Springfield Community Sample (N = 411). Per-item means and standard deviations are from Table 1 and Cronbach’s α from Table 2; the percentile compares your per-item average (on the 1–5 scale) with this reference sample, and the confidence range uses the standard error of measurement from the published α.

Ashton, M. C., Lee, K., & Goldberg, L. R. (2007). The IPIP–HEXACO scales: An alternative, public-domain measure of the personality constructs in the HEXACO model. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(8), 1515–1526.