Personality
A 24-item brief HEXACO personality assessment measuring six dimensions: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience. Each dimension is assessed with 4 items.
Read each of the 24 statements and rate how accurately it describes you. There are no right or wrong answers - answer honestly based on how you actually are.
This is a deliberately brief HEXACO test: four statements for each of the six factors, 24 in total, finished in about eight minutes. It measures the same six dimensions as the full instrument - Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience - but trades depth for speed.
A 24-item form is built for one job: a fast, low-effort read on your broad six-factor profile, including the Honesty-Humility factor that the Big Five does not measure on its own. It works well as a first look before committing to a longer test, as a quick check-in you can repeat over time, or as a lightweight measure in a survey where attention is scarce. Your answers are compared with the results of other people, so you still see where you stand rather than raw numbers, but with four items per factor the precision is necessarily lower than a longer scale.
This is the 8-minute quick version of our HEXACO family. The full 60-item HEXACO test is the canonical version and gives substantially more reliable scores and a far more detailed report; use this 24-item form for a first look or a repeated quick check-in, and the 100-item form when you want facet-level depth.
Each of the six factors is a continuous spectrum, and the report describes both poles neutrally rather than labeling either as good or bad. Because each factor is estimated from just four statements, treat these scores as a broad-strokes sketch of where you sit, not a fine-grained measurement. The factor most people come to HEXACO for is Honesty-Humility, which captures sincerity, fairness, modesty, and a low drive to exploit others; this brief form gives you a quick read on it, and the full 60-item version measures it far more reliably. The six factors below are the same dimensions the longer HEXACO forms measure with more items each.
The six-factor HEXACO structure is among the well-replicated findings in personality psychology, recovered across many languages through lexical research, and its distinguishing contribution is the Honesty-Humility factor that the Big Five does not isolate. The question with a 24-item form is not whether the model is sound but how much reliability you give up for brevity. Brief HEXACO measures, such as the 24-item Brief HEXACO Inventory (BHI), were designed precisely for this trade-off, and their developers are explicit that four items per factor yields lower internal consistency and test-retest reliability than the full HEXACO-PI-R scales.
That makes a 24-item test appropriate for research screening, repeated quick check-ins, and getting a general sense of a six-factor profile, but not for fine distinctions between people who score close together or for any high-stakes decision. The report is generated from your profile by strict scoring rules. If you want dependable factor scores you can act on - particularly a trustworthy reading of Honesty-Humility - the full 60-item version uses ten items per factor and gives substantially more reliable results.
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Both measure the same six factors, including Honesty-Humility. The difference is length and reliability: this brief form uses four items per factor and finishes in about eight minutes, while the 60-item version uses ten items per factor and gives substantially more dependable scores plus a richer report. Read the 24-item scores as a quick snapshot; use the 60-item form when you want results you can rely on, especially for a trustworthy reading of Honesty-Humility.
With only four items per factor, a brief screen like this trades reliability for speed: internal consistency and test-retest reliability are lower than the full scales, so the scores are best read as a broad sketch rather than a precise measurement. It is well suited to a quick snapshot, a repeated check-in, or research screening, but not to fine distinctions or any high-stakes decision. For dependable factor scores, take the full 60-item version.
Yes. All six HEXACO factors are covered, including Honesty-Humility - the sincerity, fairness, modesty, and low-exploitation factor that the Big Five does not isolate. With four items the score is a quick indicator rather than a precise measurement, so if Honesty-Humility is your main interest, the 60-item form will give you a far more reliable reading.
Yes. Taking the test is free, with no account required to start, and your free result shows your strongest factor and its band, while the other five are named and covered in the report. The full report, free with an account, adds factor-by-factor interpretation written against your specific score bands.
About eight minutes. There are 24 statements, four for each of the six factors, and most people answer each in a few seconds. There is no time pressure - answer honestly rather than quickly.
The brief-form items follow the established short HEXACO tradition (the Brief HEXACO Inventory and the HEXACO-60), and 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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