HEXACO Model of Personality

Personality structures are intended to organize the hundreds of characteristics that describe human personality. By condensing these characteristics into broader factors, personality structure reflects the fundamental dimensions underlying personality differences between persons. The HEXACO model is a six-dimensional model of personality structure comprising the following factors: Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), eXtraversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), and Openness to Experience (O). The model name also reflects the number of factors, as hexa is the Greek term for six.

This personality model differs from the commonly known and widely accepted five-factor model of personality (often called the Big Five or the Five-Factor Model) by its varied rotations (i.e., assignment of personality characteristics to each factor) and subsequent definitions of two factors (i.e., Agreeableness, Emotional Stability), and because ...