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HEXACO Personality (Extended).

The HEXACO-100 personality assessment measuring six main dimensions (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience) plus an interstitial Altruism scale. Each main dimension is measured with 16 items across four facets, providing a detailed personality profile.

Time
About 25 min
Questions
100
Measures 6 traits

Instructions

Read each of the 100 statements and rate how much you agree or disagree with it. There are no right or wrong answers - answer honestly based on how you actually are.

What to expect

Scientifically validated
Based on established psychological research
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About the HEXACO Facets Test (100 Items)

This is the facet-level HEXACO test. It measures the same six factors as the standard form - Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience - but goes a layer deeper, resolving four narrow facets beneath each factor, and adds an interstitial Altruism scale that sits across Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and Emotionality. With 16 statements per factor it takes about 25 minutes.

Facets are where two people with the same factor score stop looking alike. Two people equally high on Conscientiousness can differ once you separate organization from diligence, or perfectionism from prudence; a 60-item form averages those facets into a single number and cannot tell them apart. This 100-item version follows the HEXACO-100, the full facet form of the HEXACO-PI-R, and reports each factor’s sub-traits separately, along with the Altruism scale that captures a warm, helpful, soft-hearted versus hard-hearted orientation.

This is the facet-level form in our HEXACO family. The standard 60-item HEXACO test is the canonical version and is faster; choose this 100-item form when you specifically want the four facets beneath each of the six factors plus the interstitial Altruism scale, and the 24-item form when you only need a quick snapshot.

Items
100
Duration
About 25 min
Format
5-point agree-disagree ratings, 16 items per factor across four facets, plus an Altruism scale
Free result
Free, right after the test: your strongest scale and its band. The other scales are named and covered in the full report
Full report
With a free account: the full report for every factor

What it measures

Each of the six factors is a continuous spectrum, and so is each facet within it and the Altruism scale - the report describes both poles of every dimension without treating either as better. The added value here is resolution. Underneath each broad factor, four facets break the factor into its component tendencies, so your profile can show, for example, that your Conscientiousness rests more on organization than on perfectionism, or that your Honesty-Humility is high in sincerity but moderate in modesty. The Altruism scale is reported alongside the six factors as an interstitial trait rather than as a seventh factor. The six factors below are the headline dimensions; the facet breakdown sits beneath each one in your results.

  • Honesty-HumilitySincerity, fairness, modesty, and low entitlement, resolved into facets such as sincerity, fairness, greed-avoidance, and modesty.
  • EmotionalityFearfulness, anxiety, sentimentality, and need for support, broken into facets such as fearfulness, anxiety, dependence, and sentimentality.
  • ExtraversionSocial self-esteem, sociability, and liveliness versus reserve, separated into facets such as social self-esteem, social boldness, sociability, and liveliness.
  • AgreeablenessForgiveness, gentleness, and patience versus a critical, quick-to-anger style, resolved into facets such as forgiveness, gentleness, flexibility, and patience.
  • ConscientiousnessOrganization, diligence, and prudence versus a flexible, spontaneous style, separated into facets such as organization, diligence, perfectionism, and prudence.
  • Openness to ExperienceCuriosity, aesthetic appreciation, and unconventional thinking, broken into facets such as aesthetic appreciation, inquisitiveness, creativity, and unconventionality.

The science and validity

The six-factor HEXACO structure emerged from cross-language lexical research and has been replicated across many languages and cultures, with Honesty-Humility as a genuinely separate dimension the Big Five does not isolate. What a facet-level form adds is hierarchical detail: below each broad factor sit four narrower facets that carry their own information, and the HEXACO model specifies these 24 facets plus an interstitial Altruism scale that loads partly on Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and Emotionality rather than on any single factor.

Our scale uses the HEXACO-100, the full facet form of the HEXACO-PI-R published by Kibeom Lee and Michael Ashton. With 16 items per factor and four per facet, the factor scales give very consistent scores and the facet scales support facet-level reading, though, as with any short facet scale, the individual facets are measured less precisely than the broad factors. Your scores are compared with other people, and the detailed report is generated from your scored profile by strict scoring rules - the same inputs always produce the same interpretation.

References

  1. Lee, K., & Ashton, M. C. (2018). Psychometric properties of the HEXACO-100. Assessment, 25(5), 543-556.
  2. Lee, K., & Ashton, M. C. (2004). Psychometric properties of the HEXACO Personality Inventory. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 39(2), 329-358.
  3. Ashton, M. C., & Lee, K. (2007). Empirical, theoretical, and practical advantages of the HEXACO model of personality structure. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11(2), 150-166.

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Sample items

  • "I plan tasks out in detail before I start rather than figuring them out as I go."Illustrative Conscientiousness facet-style item (organization) - answered on an agree-disagree scale (not a scored item).
  • "I would feel awkward being the center of attention at a large gathering."Illustrative Extraversion facet-style item (social self-esteem, reverse-keyed, not a scored item).
  • "I go out of my way to help people who are having a hard time, even strangers."Illustrative Altruism-scale-style item (not a scored item).

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from the standard 60-item HEXACO test?

It measures the same six factors but adds a second layer of detail. The 60-item form gives you one score per factor; this 100-item form resolves four narrow facets beneath each factor - 24 facets in total - and adds an interstitial Altruism scale, so it can show which parts of a factor drive your score. Two people with identical Conscientiousness scores, for example, can have very different facet profiles, and only the facet-level form reveals that. Take the 60-item version for a reliable six-factor profile in about 15 minutes; take this one when you want to see inside the factors.

What are HEXACO facets?

Facets are the narrower traits that make up each broad HEXACO factor. Honesty-Humility, for instance, is not one thing: it combines sincerity, fairness, greed-avoidance, and modesty. Two people can reach the same overall factor score by different routes - one sincere but immodest, another modest but willing to bend rules - and facets let the report describe those differences instead of averaging them away. HEXACO defines four facets for each of the six factors.

What is the Altruism scale?

Altruism is an interstitial scale in the HEXACO model, not a seventh factor. It captures a warm, sympathetic, soft-hearted orientation toward helping others, and it draws on content shared across Honesty-Humility, Agreeableness, and Emotionality rather than belonging to any one factor. This 100-item form reports it alongside the six factors; the shorter HEXACO forms do not score it separately.

Is this HEXACO facets test free?

Yes. Taking the test is free, with no account required to start, and your free result shows your strongest scale (a factor, or the Altruism scale) and its band, while the other scales are named and covered in the report. The full report, free with an account, adds the full facet breakdown and the Altruism scale, with band-specific interpretation written against your specific factor and facet scores.

How reliable are the facet scores?

The six broad factor scores, each built from 16 items, are highly reliable. The individual facet scores are each estimated from four items, so they are less precise than the factor scores and are best read as directional indicators of where a factor’s weight sits rather than exact measurements. The broad factor scores remain the most dependable part of your profile.

Who built this test?

The instrument uses the HEXACO-100 developed by Kibeom Lee and Michael Ashton. The scoring and report were built and reviewed by Dr. Milos Kankaras, PhD psychometrician, whose background includes large-scale assessment work for the OECD, the EU, and UNESCO.

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