The structure of Honesty-Humility factor

Abstract

The model of the six-factor personality structure is based on the results of lexical studies and assumes a hierarchical structure of personality traits in which the general level is represented by six broad factors including Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Consciousness and Openness to Experience. The HEXACO name was derived as an abbreviation formed from the initial letter of the names of the broad factors. We analyzed the psychometric features and the structure of Honesty-Humility. The sample of the study included 571 respondents (age 16–84 years, 58,5% – women). The sample that participated in the study of convergent validity included 1268 people (age 16–79 years, 65,4% – women). Respondents answered to the items of the HEXACO PI-R, adapted for the Russian population by the authors of the study. The results demonstrated a satisfactory level of consistency (α = 0,82); sex differences (women scores were slightly higher: for the total scale d = 0,24), and the increase of Honesty-Humility with age. Relationships of Honesty-Humility with the Dark triad traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), confirms its convergent validity. When carrying out the exploratory factor analysis (the method of principal components with subsequent orthogonal and oblique rotation) a simple structure is obtained that confirms the hypothetical structure of the factor Honesty-Humility. When carrying out a confirmatory factor analysis, the obtained results do not contradict to the notions of the hierarchical organization of the factor and the existence of four relatively independent facets in its structure, but the confirmatory factor analysis revealed a number of relationships between the points belonging to different facets and between two facets.