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HEXACO-60

HEXACO-60
psychologysocial sciencesFree for research use

A 60-item short form of the HEXACO Personality Inventory measuring six broad dimensions: Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), eXtraversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), and Openness to Experience (O). Adds a sixth factor (H) to the Big Five and reframes Agreeableness and Emotionality around the moral and affective components of interpersonal behaviour.

Items
60
Response format
5-point Likert scale
Version
1.0
Subscales
6

Ready-to-cite methods sentence

Personality was measured with the 60-item HEXACO Personality Inventory (Ashton & Lee, 2009), which assesses six dimensions — Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience — on a 5-point Likert scale. Subscale scores were computed as the mean of 10 items after reverse-scoring the flagged items.

Reliability & validation

Validation population
College student samples reported in Ashton & Lee (2009)
subscale alphas
[object Object]
cronbach alpha range
0.7,0.8

Subscales

Honesty-HumilityEmotionalityeXtraversionAgreeablenessConscientiousnessOpenness to Experience

Response anchors

Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree

Known limitations

Researchers should verify the reverse-scoring key against Ashton & Lee (2009) Table 1 before data analysis; the HEXACO-60 uses a different keying pattern from the Big Five. Cross-cultural validation is extensive but not universal — check for a validated translation before using a non-English version.

Original citation

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.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223890902935878

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