What it measures
Six dimensions rather than five. HEXACO adds honesty-humility, covering sincerity, fairness and modesty, which the Big Five spreads across its other scales. The long form adds the facets under each dimension.
Your score is read against adults generally. The bands below come from the shape of a normal distribution, which is the model the scoring assumes rather than a count from a reference sample. Most people sit in the middle and both ends are rare by definition, so a band is a position in a distribution, not a verdict.
Good uses
- Facet-level detail across all six dimensions.
- The closest comparison to Big Five 300 on a six-factor model.
- Seeing where you sit relative to adults generally.
Known limits
- It records how you see yourself, not how you behave. The two come apart whenever you have a reason to look good.
- Scores describe tendencies across many situations, not what you will do in any single one of them.
- It cannot tell you which job, course or partner to choose.
Other tests
Covering similar ground: HEXACO 60 and Big Five 300.