IPIP-HEXACO Personality Inventory
A 240-item public-domain measure of the six HEXACO personality dimensions — Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience — across 24 facets (10 items each).
At a glance
Detailed write-up pending
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Domains
Honesty-Humility 4 facets
how sincere, fair, and unassuming you are in dealing with others
Emotionality 4 facets
how much you experience fear, anxiety, and a need for emotional support
Extraversion 4 facets
how socially confident, lively, and outgoing you are
Agreeableness 4 facets
how forgiving, gentle, and tolerant you are with others
Conscientiousness 4 facets
how organized, diligent, and careful you are
Openness to Experience 4 facets
how curious, imaginative, and open to the unfamiliar you are
Facets
Sincerity 10 items
how genuine you are in relationships versus manipulative
Fairness 10 items
how unwilling you are to cheat or take unfair advantage
Greed-Avoidance 10 items
how uninterested you are in wealth, luxury, and status
Modesty 10 items
how humble and ordinary you see yourself
Fearfulness 10 items
how readily you feel fear of harm or danger
Anxiety 10 items
how much you worry and feel tense about life's problems
Dependence 10 items
how much you want emotional support and reassurance from others
Sentimentality 10 items
how strong your emotional attachments and empathy are
Expressiveness 10 items
how openly you show liveliness and engage with people
Social Boldness 10 items
how confident and comfortable you feel speaking up in groups
Sociability 10 items
how much you enjoy conversation and others' company
Liveliness 10 items
how energetic, cheerful, and optimistic you feel
Forgiveness 10 items
how readily you forgive those who have wronged you
Gentleness 10 items
how mild and lenient you are in judging others
Flexibility 10 items
how willing you are to compromise and cooperate
Patience 10 items
how slow you are to anger and how calmly you handle frustration
Organization 10 items
how orderly and tidy you keep your surroundings and tasks
Diligence 10 items
how hard you work and push toward your goals
Perfectionism 10 items
how thorough and attentive to detail and quality you are
Prudence 10 items
how carefully you consider your actions before acting
Aesthetic Appreciation 10 items
how much you enjoy beauty in art and nature
Inquisitiveness 10 items
how much you seek out information about the world
Creativity 10 items
how much you favor innovation and original ideas
Unconventionality 10 items
how open you are to unusual or eccentric ideas and people
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 | 3.85 | 0.45 | 411 | 0.88 | per-item mean |
| Emotionality | 3.17 | 0.46 | 411 | 0.88 | per-item mean |
| Extraversion | 3.33 | 0.57 | 411 | 0.92 | per-item mean |
| Agreeableness | 3.54 | 0.51 | 411 | 0.92 | per-item mean |
| Conscientiousness | 3.82 | 0.48 | 411 | 0.91 | per-item mean |
| Openness to Experience | 3.41 | 0.52 | 411 | 0.91 | per-item mean |
| Sincerity | 3.96 | 0.59 | 411 | 0.78 | per-item mean |
| Fairness | 4.32 | 0.54 | 411 | 0.76 | per-item mean |
| Greed-Avoidance | 3.57 | 0.59 | 411 | 0.69 | per-item mean |
| Modesty | 3.55 | 0.69 | 411 | 0.80 | per-item mean |
| Fearfulness | 3.21 | 0.73 | 411 | 0.84 | per-item mean |
| Anxiety | 2.68 | 0.72 | 411 | 0.84 | per-item mean |
| Dependence | 3.07 | 0.55 | 411 | 0.73 | per-item mean |
| Sentimentality | 3.70 | 0.64 | 411 | 0.79 | per-item mean |
| Expressiveness | 2.86 | 0.74 | 411 | 0.84 | per-item mean |
| Social Boldness | 3.30 | 0.79 | 411 | 0.86 | per-item mean |
| Sociability | 3.45 | 0.75 | 411 | 0.85 | per-item mean |
| Liveliness | 3.69 | 0.65 | 411 | 0.82 | per-item mean |
| Forgiveness | 3.66 | 0.59 | 411 | 0.79 | per-item mean |
| Gentleness | 3.68 | 0.59 | 411 | 0.79 | per-item mean |
| Flexibility | 3.27 | 0.54 | 411 | 0.72 | per-item mean |
| Patience | 3.53 | 0.77 | 411 | 0.88 | per-item mean |
| Organization | 3.78 | 0.72 | 411 | 0.85 | per-item mean |
| Diligence | 4.01 | 0.58 | 411 | 0.81 | per-item mean |
| Perfectionism | 3.68 | 0.59 | 411 | 0.80 | per-item mean |
| Prudence | 3.80 | 0.58 | 411 | 0.80 | per-item mean |
| Aesthetic Appreciation | 3.64 | 0.72 | 411 | 0.83 | per-item mean |
| Inquisitiveness | 3.60 | 0.66 | 411 | 0.78 | per-item mean |
| Creativity | 3.70 | 0.66 | 411 | 0.84 | per-item mean |
| Unconventionality | 2.71 | 0.71 | 411 | 0.84 | per-item mean |
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.
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.