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Personality Traits Beyond the Big Five: Are They Within the HEXACO Space?
Author(s) -
Lee Kibeom,
Ogunfowora Babatunde,
Ashton Michael C.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00354.x
Subject(s) - big five personality traits , facet (psychology) , psychology , big five personality traits and culture , personality , alternative five model of personality , variance (accounting) , personality assessment inventory , 16pf questionnaire , honesty , social psychology , developmental psychology , accounting , business
Paunonen (2002) recently developed the Supernumerary Personality Inventory (SPI), a measure of 10 traits that have low loadings within the space of the Big Five personality factors. If the SPI personality traits are representative of the domain of non‐Big Five personality traits, then the major source of the variance in the SPI traits would be expected to correlate strongly with the sixth factor of personality, Honesty‐Humility. We tested this hypothesis using self‐report measures ( N =200) of the SPI traits, of the Big Five, and of the new six‐dimensional (“HEXACO”) structure. Results indicated that the first unrotated factor underlying the 10 SPI traits was heavily saturated with variance from Honesty‐Humility ( r =.65). Nevertheless, the 10 SPI traits contained substantial amounts of unique variance not accounted for by the HEXACO or the Big Five variables, highlighting the importance of the facet‐level assessment of personality traits.