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A review by opson
The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitivea and Why It Matters for Everyone by Michael C. Ashton, Kibeom Lee
4.0
Whenever I’ve come in contact with personality conceptualizations, they have most often been based on the classic Big Five model. The Big Five model comprises of openness, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism.
However, the authors of this book argue that the Big Five model is faulty, since it was invented during a time of limited computer power. This means that the original researchers had to settle for only 5 dimensions. With computer power no longer an issue, the book’s authors were free to experiment – and found an interesting result. By splitting the factors into 6 dimensions, the trait of Honesty-Humility appeared across generations and cultures. More than 6 splits resulted in overlap of the dimensions however.
This new way of conceptualizing personality dimensions is abbreviated as HEXACO. It stands for:
(H) Honesty-Humility
(E) Emotionality
(X) eXtraversion
(A) Agreeableness
(C) Conscientiousness
(O) Openness to Experience.
I found the content to be interesting and thought-provoking. Apparently, the strongest predictor for the people we choose to surround ourselves with is how well they match our level of the H factor. It also does seem like the dimension of humility is lacking from the Big Five, doesn’t it?
However, the authors of this book argue that the Big Five model is faulty, since it was invented during a time of limited computer power. This means that the original researchers had to settle for only 5 dimensions. With computer power no longer an issue, the book’s authors were free to experiment – and found an interesting result. By splitting the factors into 6 dimensions, the trait of Honesty-Humility appeared across generations and cultures. More than 6 splits resulted in overlap of the dimensions however.
This new way of conceptualizing personality dimensions is abbreviated as HEXACO. It stands for:
(H) Honesty-Humility
(E) Emotionality
(X) eXtraversion
(A) Agreeableness
(C) Conscientiousness
(O) Openness to Experience.
I found the content to be interesting and thought-provoking. Apparently, the strongest predictor for the people we choose to surround ourselves with is how well they match our level of the H factor. It also does seem like the dimension of humility is lacking from the Big Five, doesn’t it?