Faktorenstruktur, psychometrische Eigenschaften und Messinvarianz der deutschsprachigen Version des 60-Item HEXACO Persönlichkeitsinventars

Recent lexical studies across several languages have provided evidence for six factors describing the structure of personality: the HEXACO model of personality. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the German-language version of the 60-item HEXACO Personality Inventory. The purported factor structure was confirmed using a large sample of N = 3240 participants. The emerged factors showed satisfactory internal consistencies and were virtually uncorrelated. Moreover, measurement invariance across gender was established. A second study (N = 853) showed that the 60-item HEXACO provides a close proxy to the 96-item version. In a third study (N = 235), the HEXACO-60 exhibited a meaningful pattern of correlations to the Big-Five factors. Finally, a fourth study (N = 31) provided evidence for high 7-month re-test reliability. The German-language version of the HEXACO-60 can thus be regarded as a sound tool for a reliable, valid, and relatively economical assessment of the HEXACO model.