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  • 1.  Summary: Which is the most frequently used Big 5 instrument?

    Posted 01-31-2011 07:50
    Thanks to everyone who responded to my request concerning the most
    frequently used Big 5 instrument. I’ve attached a Word document that has
    the summary. I personally think that the HEXACO Personality Inventory is
    an interesting ‘new’ instrument. I am just not sure how established it
    is by now.

    Thanks again!


  • 2.  Summary: Which is the most frequently used Big 5 instrument?

    Posted 01-31-2011 08:29
    Dear Stefan,

    In response to your great summary, Reinout de Vries asked me to add the
    following regarding the HEXACO Personality Inventory:

    You might consider the HEXACO Personality Inventory. In addition to the
    traditional Big 5 factors, the HEXACO also assesses a 6th
    dimension--Honesty-Humility--that predicts ethical decision-making and
    behavior. Kibeom Lee & Michael Ashton maintain a website where you can
    download the measure and relevant articles: http://hexaco.org.

    Note that, apart from the addition of Honesty-Humility, two of the
    domains of the HEXACO-PI-R (Revised version of the HEXACO Personality
    Inventory) are rotated versions of two Big 5 factors. Emotionality does
    not contain the irritability component which is present in Neuroticism
    (or: revised Emotional Stability); this component has shifted to HEXACO
    Agreeableness instead. Thus HEXACO Emotionality is characterized by
    sentimentality, dependency, anxiety, and fearfulness while Agreeableness
    is now characterized by a (lack of) anger, hostility, and thus by
    forgiveness, patience, gentleness, and flexibility. Additionally, a nice
    paper on the discussion of 'blendedness' (i.e., facets that belong to
    more than one domain scale) is found in Ashton, M.C., Lee, K., Goldberg,
    L.R., & De Vries, R.E. (2009). Higher-order factors of personality: Do
    they exist? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13, 79-91.

    Kind regards,
    Astrid on behalf of Reinout de Vries

    -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
    Van: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv
    [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Namens Stefan Volk
    Verzonden: maandag 31 januari 2011 13:50
    Aan: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Onderwerp: [OB-LIST] Summary: Which is the most frequently used Big 5
    instrument?

    Thanks to everyone who responded to my request concerning the most
    frequently used Big 5 instrument. I've attached a Word document that has

    the summary. I personally think that the HEXACO Personality Inventory is

    an interesting 'new' instrument. I am just not sure how established it
    is by now.

    Thanks again!