The relationship between HEXACO personality dimensions and type D personality

Abstract This present study aims to consider the relationship between type D personality and HEXACO personality dimensions. The statistical population was included all of the students of Islamic Azad University of Tabriz and 242 people were selected by the one–stage cluster sampling as the statistical sample. Then the participants filled HEXACO-PI and D-14 questionnaires. This study is a kind of correlation studies and data were analyzed by Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multi-Variant Regression. The SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study showed that there is a significantly negative correlation between Honesty-Humility dimension and type D and Negative affective (p<0.05), a significantly positive correlation between emotionality dimension and type D, and Negative affective, a significantly negative correlation between Extraversion dimension and type D, Social inhibition and Negative affective, a significantly negative correlation between Agreeableness dimension and type D and Negative affective, a significantly negative correlation between Conscientiousness dimension and type D and Negative affective (p<0.01) and a significantly negative correlation between Openness to experience dimension and type D and Negative affective (p<0.05). Also, HEXACO personality dimensions could predict 25.7 percents of variance of type D (R2=0.257).