A MEASURE OF THE SIX MAJOR DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY
If you would like to administer the inventory in pencil and paper form, both the 100-item and the 60-item versions of the HEXACO-PI-R are provided here in several languages. Both of these versions are available in self-report and observer report forms.
You can download any of these forms free of charge, but only for the purpose of non-profit academic research. (Please note that we do not allow researchers to collect data through an online survey site or an app accessible by the general public. Those online survey pages or apps must either be password-protected or not searchable through search engines.)
Please contact the authors if you would like to use the inventory for non-academic purposes.
We recommend the 100-item versions for use in most research studies, but the 60-item version is suitable when time is very short. (In undergraduate student samples, nearly all respondents will complete the 100-item version in 20 minutes, or the 60-item version in 12 minutes. Respondents of other samples may require more time.) The items of the 60-item version are a subset of the items of the 100-item version. However, the items of the 60-item version are not simply the first 60 items of the 100-item version. The item numbers are not the same across the two versions.
Please see the translations page for information about additional translations of the HEXACO-PI-R.
For some language versions that have been translated relatively recently, we provide an Excel file only, which includes translated items alongside with the original English items. Users may construct their own questionnaires using the master Excel file. For some language versions, there could be more than one set of translations, and in such cases, please note that we do not have any preferred versions, and it is up to users which version to use for their research. Please let us know if you come across any problems (e.g., typographical errors) on these files.
There is also a 200-item version of the HEXACO-PI-R that is recommended when longer measures of the facet-level variables (see scoring keys) are required in order to achieve higher internal-consistency reliability. Please contact the authors if this form is required.
If you're interested in measuring HEXACO traits of young adolescents (10-14 years of age), we would recommend using the inventory developed by Gnisci, Mottola, Perugini, Senese, and Sergi (2023). Click here to download the HEXACO Medium School Inventory Extended for young adolescents (available in English or Italian, in both self- and observer report versions).
If you are looking for adjective-based scales assessing the HEXACO traits, please see the article by Romano, Costantini, Richetin, and Perugini (in press). Click here for the Italian adjective scales, and here for the English adjective scales.
*Until June 9, 2020, an incorrect version of the Norwegian self-report HEXACO-60 was posted. Any researchers who used that version may contact us and we will send the scoring key for that version.
We thank the following persons for their efforts in developing the HEXACO-PI-R website: Amir Zaib Abbasi, Naser Aghababaei, Narmin Ahmadzada, Slagana Angelkoska, Sofija Arnaudova, Nazar Akrami, Said Al-Dhafri, Guido Alessandri, Saeed Alsaid, Anton Aluja, Toni Babarovic, Usha Barahmand, Hassan Bashiri, Tarek Bellaj, Amparo Belloch, Patrick Bender, Robin Bergh, Lina Daouk- Öyry, Hassn Boudassamout, Sabrina Bronzatto, Kathleen Boies, Rawiwan Chaikhum, Xuezheng (Acme) Chen, Antonio Chirumbolo, Vasiliki Christodoulou, Ariela Costa, Lina Daouk- Öyry, Jesper Dammeyer, Jessica Janine de Oliveira, Reinout de Vries, Daniel Dostál, Kali A. Demes, Marina Egorova, Mohammed Essa, Lorenzo Filosa, Erik Forsberg, Nicolas Geeraert, Larry Grandmaison, Elias Ghossoub, Vladimir Hedrih, Andrew Hizhnjak, Kung-Yu Hsu, Dragos Iliescu, Patrick Jern, Mohsen Joshanloo, Chester Kam, Katrina Kelmendi, Aiste Krataviciute-Alisauskiene, Annika Karinen, Katrina Kelmendi, Maryna Klimanska, Elena Lisa, Bernd Marcus, Khatuna Martskvishvili, Samuel T. McAbee, Andrej Mentel, Janko Mededovic, Kai Leitemo, Ljiljana Mihic, Lau Lilleholt, Ahmad Nadali, János Nagy, Hamid Neshat, Diep Nguyen, Xuan Huong Nguyen, Joao Pedro Oliveira, DanÃel Ólason, Edith Oltay, Martin Larsen Ørnfjord, Fernando Ortiz, Anna Pacak-Vedel, Hassan Palahang, Marco Perugini, Viktoria Popova, Maria Psychountaki, Neeti Rana, Minhaaj Rehman, Kattiya Ratanadilok, Nuno Miguel Vieira Rodrigues, Estrella Romero, Victor dos Santos, Eleonora Serfimovska, Frank Shu, Penelope Sotiriou, Olga Strizhitskaya, Timotej Strnad, Iva Sverko, Nanna Bak Skytte, Piotr Szarota, Zsofia Szirmak, Victor Talanov, Arkun Tatar, Saadat Vakiloghlu, Veerabalaji Veeraswamy, Akio Wakabayashi, Junwei Wu, Tereza Zaskodna.