This study aimed to investigate the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners’ speaking ability. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, among all the language institutes (fifteen institutes) in Amol, Mazandaran Province, 8 were selected randomly (four institutes for female and four institutes for male language learners). Then, two classes were selected rando...

The construct of equity sensitivity describes an individual's preference about his/her desired input to outcome ratio. Individuals high on equity sensitivity tend to be more input oriented, and are often called "Benevolents." Individuals low on equity sensitivity are more outcome oriented, and are described as "Entitleds." Given that equity sensitivity has often been described as a trait, the p...

A surge in longitudinal personality research has yielded insights into how our personalities change over life stages. Very little of this research, however, employed the HEXACO model personality, and thus is known about life-course of, especially, honesty-humility dimension, nor psychometric properties inventories. In study, we investigate stability two years among three dimensions (honesty-hum...

Across cultures, women reliably exhibit higher levels of Neuroticism than men. Recent work shows that this sex difference, particularly in Neuroticism’s anxiety facet, is partly mediated by the difference physical strength. We build on finding testing pre-registered predictions mediation strength differences HEXACO Emotionality and its Anxiety Fearfulness facets (HEXACO stands for factors hones...

Abstract The present study investigated the relative contributions of Dark Triad, honesty-humility, and other HEXACO traits to externalizing problems in young people. One-hundred-and-six adolescents aged between 12 18 years completed an online survey containing Dirty Dozen for Youth as index Triad psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, HEXACO-Middle School Inventory assess honesty-humility ...

Abstract Reliance on self-report to measure problematic smartphone use is a limitation of the extant literature. It unclear whether self- and other-ratings converge correlations between personality self-reported are distorted by common method bias. The current study provides first comprehensive assessment self-other agreement relationship other-rated in large sample young adults. Focal particip...