Self-report measure

International Personality Item Pool HEXACO Personality Inventory, 60 items (IPIP-HEXACO-60)

The IPIP-HEXACO-60 uses 60 statements from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) to assess the six HEXACO dimensions of personality.

You learn your six broad traits, including honesty and humility, from a shorter set of questions.

For anyone who wants a shorter six-trait profile that still covers honesty and humility.

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It comes from cross-language personality research on six broad dimensions of character.

Sample result, example data. Illustrative chart with invented scores; it does not describe any real respondent.

International Personality Item Pool HEXACO Personality Inventory, 60 items (IPIP-HEXACO-60) box

What this test is

Welcome. The IPIP-HEXACO-60 uses 60 statements from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) to assess the six HEXACO dimensions of personality.

The measure

The International Personality Item Pool HEXACO Personality Inventory, 60 items (IPIP-HEXACO-60) was developed by Ashton and colleagues (2007). It has 60 items, each answered on a 5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate) scale. Its scores cover Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience.

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.

At a glance

Items

Response scale

5-point (Very Inaccurate … Very Accurate)

Est. time

~9 min

Subscales

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Domains

6 HEXACO domains

What it measures

Sixty statements describe six broad dimensions: Honesty-Humility (sincerity, fairness, modesty and lack of greed), Emotionality (fearfulness, anxiety, dependence and sentimentality), Extraversion (social confidence, liveliness and sociability), Agreeableness (forgiveness, gentleness, flexibility and patience), Conscientiousness (organization, diligence, perfectionism and prudence) and Openness to Experience (aesthetic appreciation, inquisitiveness, creativity and unconventionality). Ten statements represent each dimension.

The six-dimension model was proposed by Ashton and Lee (2007) on the basis of lexical studies across many languages, which repeatedly found a sixth factor concerning honesty and fairness alongside the familiar five. Ashton and Lee (2009) described a sixty-item form of their inventory, and the items here come from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) versions written by Ashton, Lee and Goldberg (2007).

Each dimension is scored from its ten statements. Higher scores describe a stronger, more consistent version of the tendency, and lower scores describe its opposite. Low Honesty-Humility describes a greater willingness to bend rules for gain and a stronger sense of entitlement; high Emotionality describes greater sensitivity to danger and stronger attachment, without the anger that the five-factor model places under Neuroticism.

The short form is used in research and in personal development when the six dimensions are wanted without facet detail. On this site, the full IPIP-HEXACO adds facet scores, the Mini-IPIP and IPIP-NEO-120 follow the five-factor model, and the IPIP Dark Triad describes manipulative traits related to low Honesty-Humility.

Nomological network

The HEXACO model describes six broad personality dimensions: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience (Ashton & Lee, 2009). The short scales converge with the longer HEXACO measures and with ratings from people who know the respondent (Ashton & Lee, 2009).

Honesty-Humility is the dimension that sets the model apart. It is strongly and negatively related to psychopathy, Machiavellianism and narcissism, which five-factor measures capture less well (Lee & Ashton, 2005).

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.”

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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.

Scoring & interpretation

Your report explains each of your scale scores in plain language.

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.
Lee, K., & Ashton, M. C. (2005). Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism in the Five-Factor Model and the HEXACO model of personality structure. Personality and Individual Differences, 38(7), 1571–1582.

Sample report preview

The report opens with a profile of your scores on the 6 scales (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience), drawn on a common scale so the overall shape of the profile is visible at a glance. Each scale then receives a short plain-language explanation of what a higher or lower standing describes. It closes with guidance on reading the results and on the limits of self-report.

Report contents
Section	What it shows
Subscale scores	Your score on each of the 6 subscales.
Comparisons	How your scores compare with a published comparison group.

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