IPIP-HEXACO-60 Personality Inventory
IPIP-HEXACO-60 uses 60 International Personality Item Pool statements to assess 6 named scales. Respondents complete 60 items using 1–5 ratings. Keyed responses are summed separately for each reported scale.
At a glance
What it measures
This 60-item form measures the six HEXACO domains with ten items per domain, drawn from the public-domain IPIP-HEXACO pool of Ashton, Lee, and Goldberg (2007) — their alternative, public-domain measure of the HEXACO constructs. The abbreviation keeps all four facets of each domain represented, following the domain-coverage principle of Ashton and Lee's (2009) HEXACO-60.
It is a domain-level profile: the six scores are reported against Eugene–Springfield Community Sample reference values (shown in the norms section) without facet-level breakdown, making it the practical-length alternative to the 240-item inventory above it in the catalog.
Subscales
Honesty-Humility 10 items
how sincere, fair, and unassuming you are in dealing with others
Emotionality 10 items
how much you experience fear, anxiety, and a need for emotional support
Extraversion 10 items
how socially confident, lively, and outgoing you are
Agreeableness 10 items
how forgiving, gentle, and tolerant you are with others
Conscientiousness 10 items
how organized, diligent, and careful you are
Openness to Experience 10 items
how curious, imaginative, and open to the unfamiliar you are
Example item
“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.
Scoring & interpretation
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.
Psychometrics & norms
| Scale | M | SD | N | α | Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honesty-Humility | 40.33 | 5.39 | 485 | 0.69 | summed raw |
| Emotionality | 30.57 | 5.40 | 481 | 0.70 | summed raw |
| Extraversion | 33.27 | 6.73 | 476 | 0.75 | summed raw |
| Agreeableness | 36.32 | 5.67 | 503 | 0.74 | summed raw |
| Conscientiousness | 39.78 | 5.41 | 513 | 0.76 | summed raw |
| Openness to Experience | 34.86 | 6.23 | 529 | 0.74 | summed raw |
Norms computed from the Eugene-Springfield Community Sample (ESCS) — Lewis R. Goldberg’s adult community panel from Eugene and Springfield, Oregon (Harvard Dataverse, doi:10.7910/DVN/UF52WY). This is a community sample and is NOT nationally representative. The mean, standard deviation, reference N and Cronbach’s α were computed directly from the raw IPIP item-level responses on THIS scale’s exact item set and reverse-keying (complete cases); reference N varies by scale and is shown with each scale below. The confidence range uses the standard error of measurement (SEM = SD·√(1−α)) from that computed α.
Source & citation
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. Items drawn from the public-domain IPIP–HEXACO pool; abbreviated to 10 items per domain covering all four facets, following the domain-coverage principle in Ashton, M. C., & Lee, K. (2009). The HEXACO–60: A short measure of the major dimensions of personality. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(4), 340–345.
References
- 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.
- Ashton, M. C., & Lee, K. (2009). The HEXACO–60: A short measure of the major dimensions of personality. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(4), 340–345.