IPIP-HEXACO-60 Personality Inventory
A 60-item public-domain measure of the six HEXACO personality dimensions — Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. Ten items per domain cover all four facets of each dimension, balancing brevity with content breadth. A practical alternative to the 240-item version when assessment time is limited.
At a glance
Detailed write-up pending
A full, citation-backed scientific write-up for this scale — overview, clinical use, and psychometrics in the voice of a dissertation "Measures" section — has not yet been authored. To honor the platform's no-fabricated-sources rule, this page currently shows only the verified registry facts above (item count, structure, scoring, and any published norms). No validity coefficients, reliability figures, or citations are shown here that cannot be traced to a named source; the authored write-up will be added once its sources have been read and recorded in the plan-integrity file.
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.