Not much H in the Big Five Aspect Scales: Relations between BFAS and HEXACO-PI-R scales

Abstract

We examined relations between the Big Five Aspect Scales (BFAS) and the HEXACO Personality Inventory—Revised (HEXACO-PI-R), using meta-analytic correlations from Ludeke et al. (in press). Specifically, we examined the extent to which the variance in BFAS scale scores is accounted for by that of the HEXACO-PI-R, and vice versa. Analyses were conducted both for factor and facet/aspect scales. Results indicated that Honesty-Humility was not well explained by the five factor scales (R2 = 0.27) or by the 10 aspect scales (R2 = 0.30) of the BFAS; in contrast, all BFAS factor scales were reasonably well explained by HEXACO-PI-R factor scales. In addition, many of the HEXACO-PI-R facet scales (including some Honesty-Humility facets) were poorly accounted for by the 10 BFAS aspect scales, whereas all 10 of those scales were reasonably well explained by a priori selected sets of HEXACO-PI-R facets.