About the test
HEXACO personality test
Six broad traits instead of five: the HEXACO model adds honesty-humility to the Big Five picture. 240 public-domain statements give you 24 facets.
- 240 questions
- About 25 min
Questionnaire / instrument: IPIP-HEXACO
What does it measure?
Six personality traits: honesty–humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness. Each trait includes four facets, making 24 in total.
Where does it come from?
This is the 240-item IPIP-HEXACO measure published by Michael Ashton, Kibeom Lee and Lewis Goldberg in 2007. It uses IPIP items to assess constructs in the HEXACO model.
How is the result calculated?
Each facet averages ten keyed responses, and each trait combines its four facets. The report shows broad traits and their more specific facets.
What can the result tell you?
This public-domain instrument is distinct from the official HEXACO-PI-R. Emotionality and agreeableness also differ in content from their closest Big Five counterparts, so similarly named scores should not be treated as identical.
Languages and adaptations
English follows the IPIP key; Icelandic uses a published IPIP translation. Other versions, including Norwegian, include our own AI-assisted translations that have not been independently validated.
License and reuse
Public domainIPIP places its items and scales in the public domain. They may be used, copied, adapted and translated for commercial and non-commercial purposes without a fee or separate permission.
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Sources and further reading
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.