title: The HEXACO-60: a short measure of the major dimensions of personality.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada. mashton@brocku.ca
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ashton
authors.forename: Kibeom
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory