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HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-PI-R)

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An inventory assessing the six personality factors included in the HEXACO model of personality structure

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The HEXACO-PI-R assesses the six personality factors that have been recovered widely in psycholexical studies involving various languages (Ashton et al. 2014; Lee and Ashton 2008): Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. There are 200-, 100-, and 60-item versions of inventory, the shorter versions being subsets of the longer versions. The 100- and 60-item versions are widely used in psychological research to assess personality traits. For each version of the inventory, both self- and observer-report forms are publicly available for research and educational purposes (http://hexaco.org). The inventory can be completed by adults and high-school-aged adolescents of normal reading comprehension ability.

Factor- and Facet-Level Scales of the HEXACO-PI-R

The HEXACO-PI-R consists of six broad...

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  1. Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

    Michael C. Ashton

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Kibeom Lee

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  1. Michael C. Ashton
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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA

    Bradley A. Green

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Ashton, M.C., Lee, K. (2017). HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-PI-R). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_900-1

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