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A 12-item assessment measuring two dimensions of personal integrity: Sincerity (genuine self-presentation) and Fairness (honest treatment of others). Drawn from the HEXACO Honesty-Humility factor.
Read each of the twelve statements and rate how much you agree with it as a description of yourself. There are no right or wrong answers - answer honestly.
Personal integrity is the tendency to be honest, sincere, and fair in how you deal with other people, even when bending the rules would pay off. This test measures it through two closely related facets: Sincerity, your inclination to present yourself genuinely rather than flatter or manipulate, and Fairness, your unwillingness to cheat, exploit, or take what is not yours. Together these describe how trustworthy and principled your interpersonal conduct tends to be.
The 12 items take about 4 minutes. You rate how much you agree with each statement as a description of yourself, and your results are compared with other people, so you see where your self-reported integrity stands among them rather than a raw number in isolation. There are no right or wrong answers; the most useful results come from answering honestly rather than as you think you should.
The two facets draw on the Honesty-Humility factor of the HEXACO model of personality, the sixth dimension that distinguishes HEXACO from the Big Five. Each facet is a continuous spectrum, not a category, and the report describes both ends without treating either as a verdict on your character. Most people land near the middle; distinctively high or low scores are what give a profile its shape.
Because this is a brief self-report measure, it captures how you see your own honesty and fairness, which is informative but not the same as an observed record of behavior. People who care how they appear can answer in a flattering direction, and the report is honest about that limit. Read your result as a structured reflection on your interpersonal values rather than a certified measure of conduct.
Honesty-Humility emerged from lexical studies of personality across many languages, in which a factor capturing sincerity, fairness, modesty, and low entitlement recovered consistently once the analysis was extended beyond English. The HEXACO model isolates this content as a separate dimension, where the Big Five spreads it thinly across Agreeableness and the low ends of other traits. Its two interpersonal facets, Sincerity and Fairness, are the core of what people usually mean by everyday integrity.
The practical payoff of measuring this content is well documented. Honesty-Humility and the integrity it captures predict outcomes the Big Five accounts for only weakly, including counterproductive and dishonest workplace behavior and exploitative tendencies. A large meta-analysis of integrity tests by Ones, Viswesvaran, and Schmidt found meaningful validity for predicting job performance and counterproductive behaviors. Your scores here are compared with other people, and the detailed report is generated from your scored profile by strict scoring rules. This is an educational self-assessment, not a clinical or employment-screening instrument, and it does not diagnose anything or certify your honesty.
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Yes. Taking the 12-item test is free, with no account required to start, and your free result shows your strongest integrity dimension and its band, while the other dimensions are named and covered in the report. The full report, free with an account, adds the exact percentiles and a facet-by-facet breakdown of your Sincerity and Fairness with practical reflections written against your specific score bands.
It measures two interpersonal facets of the HEXACO Honesty-Humility factor: Sincerity, your tendency to be genuine rather than manipulative, and Fairness, your unwillingness to cheat or exploit others. Together these capture what people usually mean by everyday personal integrity. It is a self-report of your values and habits, not an observed record of your behavior.
No. Commercial integrity tests used in hiring are designed and validated for personnel selection and screening decisions, often with safeguards against faking. This is a short educational self-assessment for personal insight. It is not designed, validated, or licensed for employment screening, and you should not use it to make hiring or firing decisions.
You can, and that is the main limit of any self-report integrity measure. If you answer as you think you should rather than as you actually are, the score reflects your self-image rather than your tendencies. The result is most useful when you answer candidly and treat it as a private prompt for reflection rather than a test to pass.
No. A lower score suggests you are more pragmatic about rules and self-presentation than people who score high, not that you are dishonest or untrustworthy. Scores describe tendencies on a spectrum, not character verdicts, and a single brief questionnaire cannot certify anyone as honest or dishonest. The test does not diagnose anything.
This test zooms in on the two interpersonal facets of HEXACO Honesty-Humility. The full HEXACO test measures all six personality factors, including the other facets of Honesty-Humility such as Modesty and low entitlement. If you want the broader personality picture rather than a focused integrity reading, the HEXACO test is the wider lens.
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