Personality · Domains · Facets
Six core factors, four facets each, plus an interlaced scale — visualised with population bell curves and the official scale descriptions from the University of Calgary.
HEXACO at a glance — where to take it, what the six factors mean, and how the revised inventory differs from the original.
The HEXACO model adds Honesty-Humility to the familiar Big Five structure, splits Agreeableness into cooperation versus anger, and reframes Neuroticism as Emotionality. Each of the six factors has four facet-level scales (24 traits) and a 25th interstitial facet, Altruism (versus Antagonism), which cuts across Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, and Agreeableness.
The official HEXACO Personality Inventory is maintained at the University of Calgary. It is free, research-backed, and available in 43 languages.
Construction of the HEXACO Personality Inventory began in 2000. The aim was to assess and interpret the six personality dimensions found in lexical studies across languages. By 2002, a provisional 108-item version was in use — six scales of 18 items each, without separate facet subscales.
The HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (HEXACO-PI-R) introduced two key changes, within Extraversion, the Expressiveness facet was replaced by Social Self-Esteem, and the interstitial Negative Self-Evaluation scale was removed. The PI-R now assesses four facets within each of the six factors, plus the interstitial Altruism scale — 200 items in the full HEXACO-200, or 100 items in the half-length HEXACO-100.
Domain and facet scores are typically reported on a 1–10 scale (higher = more of that trait). The bell curves below show where a score sits relative to the general population distribution. Percentile bands (<10th, 10–50th, 50–90th, >90th) are marked along the horizontal axis.
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Scores from the HEXACO Personality Inventory at hexaco.org. Bell curves animate as each chart scrolls into view — red dotted line marks the raw score.
