What is this H factor?

The five-factor model of personality, also known as the Big Five, is a theory that describes personality variation across five broad dimensions:

Some use the acronym OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) to remember the Big 5 personality traits.

• Extraversion: Sociable and assertive
• Agreeableness: Cooperative and polite
Conscientiousness: Task-focused and orderly
Neuroticism: Prone to negative emotions like anxiety, depression, and irritation
Openness to Experience: Has a broad range of interests, is sensitive to art and beauty, and prefers novelty 

What is this H factor? 

https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/T/The-H-Factor-of-Personality

The H Factor of Personality

Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone

HEXACO is an acronym for the six dimensions of personality in the HEXACO model of personality:

• H: Honesty-Humility—authenticity, humility, integrity, power

• E: Emotionality-stress tolerance, independence, resilience, empathy
• X: Extraversion: team orientation, outgoingness, enthusiasm, sociability
• A: Agreeableness—consideration, compassion, cooperation, patience
• C: Conscientiousness—detail orientation, self-discipline, organization, planning
• O:Openness to Experience: conformity, creativity, curiosity, wonder
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  The output is:The HEXACO model was developed by Michael Ashton and Kibeom Lee as an alternative to the Big Five personality traits model. It is widely used in research and applied settings to understand individual differences in personality and behavior. 
  
  
• It's based on lexical studies that involved several European and Asian languages. The HEXACO model is similar to the Big Five model (Ashton et al., 2004).
• , but it has some key differences, including the addition of the Honesty-Humility dimension. 

• Description

  People who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. The “H” in the H factor stands for “Honesty-Humility,” one of the six basic dimensions of the human personality. 

  It isn’t intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility go hand in hand, and until very recently the H factor hadn’t been recognized as a basic dimension of personality. But scientific evidence shows that traits of honesty and humility form a unified group of personality traits, separate from those of the other five groups identified several decades ago.

  This book, written by the discoverers of the H factor, explores the scientific findings that show the importance of this personality dimension in various aspects of people’s lives: their approaches to money, power, and sex; their inclination to commit crimes or obey the law; their attitudes about society, politics, and religion; and their choice of friends and spouse. Finally, the book provides ways of identifying people who are low in the H factor, as well as advice on how to raise one’s own level of H.

• Honesty–Humility, which represents individual differences in tendencies to be sincere, fair, and unassuming versus manipulative, greedy, and pretentious. The second most important change is the rotation of the Big Five dimensions, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability. In the HEXACO model, variance associated with irritability, which in the Big Five model is associated with low emotional stability, is assigned to HEXACO agreeableness instead.

• Important reference article to read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886909002487#:~:text= Recently, a 20 new structural model, assigned to 20HEXACO%20Agreeableness%20instead.

• Evidence thus far shows that the HEXACO model is a robust model, with high levels of cross-cultural correspondence of the six lexical dimensions in 12 languages with the six HEXACO dimensions (Lee & Ashton, 2008) and significant and meaningful incremental validity of Honesty–Humility in the prediction of integrity-related criteria over and above Five Factor Model measures (Ashton & Lee, 2008).

• HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised
  Copyright © 2009 Kibeom Lee, Ph.D., & Michael C. Ashton, Ph.D.

This article has great interpretations of HEXACO scores (high and low)