Objections to the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure—and why those Objections Fail
By M. Ashton, Kibeom Lee. 2020
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The six–dimensional HEXACO model of personality structure and its associated inventory have increasingly been used in personality research. But in spite of the evidence supporting this structure and demonstrating its advantages over five–dimensional models, some researchers continue to use and promote the latter. Although there has been little overt, organized argument against the adoption of the HEXACO model, we do hear sporadic offerings of reasons for retaining the five–dimensional systems, usually in informal conversations, in manuscript reviews, on social media platforms, and occasionally in published works. In this target article, we list all of the objections to the HEXACO model that we have heard of, and we then explain why each objection fails. © 2020 European Association of Personality Psychology
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- The influence of demographics and personality on COVID-19 coping in young adults (2020, unknown): “We focused on HEXACO research rather than research on other models of personality due to the theoretical and empirical advantages afforded by the former (Ashton & Lee, 2020).”
- Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits (2020, background): “We distinguish between three broad aims of personality research – description , prediction , and explanation – and argue that these aims may entail disparate and sometimes even opposing research strategies.”
- Personality trait stability and change (2021, background): “We note that there are traits that cannot be easily placed in a Big Five structure (e.g., Ashton & Lee, 2020) and, of course, there is more to personality than traits.”