The HEXACO-60: A Short Measure of the Major Dimensions of Personality

✍ Scribed by Ashton, Michael; Lee, Kibeom

• Book ID: 120484122
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 90 KB
• Volume: 91
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-3891
• DOI: 10.1080/00223890902935878

✦ Synopsis

We describe the HEXACO-60, a short personality inventory that assesses the 6 dimensions of the HEXACO model of personality structure. We selected the 10 items of each of the 6 scales from the longer HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (Ashton & Lee, 2008; Lee & Ashton, 2004, 2006), with the aim of representing the broad range of content that defines each dimension. In self-report data from samples of college students and community adults, the scales showed reasonably high levels of internal consistency reliability and rather low interscale correlations. Correlations of the HEXACO-60 scales with measures of the Big Five factors were consistent with theoretical expectations, and convergent correlations between self-reports and observer reports on the HEXACO-60 scales were high, averaging above .50. We recommend the HEXACO-60 for use in personality assessment contexts in which administration time is limited.