To boast or not to boast: Testing the humility aspect of the Honesty-Humility factor
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To boast or not to boast : Testing the humility aspect of the Honesty-Humility factor. / Hilbig, Benjamin E.; Heydasch, Timo; Zettler, Ingo.
I: Personality and Individual Differences, Bind 69, 2014, s. 12-16.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - To boast or not to boast
T2 - Testing the humility aspect of the Honesty-Humility factor
AU - Hilbig, Benjamin E.
AU - Heydasch, Timo
AU - Zettler, Ingo
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Interest in the HEXACO Model of Personality has consistently grown in the past decade - with a particular focus on the newly proposed sixth basic factor: Honesty-Humility. In essence, this factor was proposed as the driving force behind cooperative, honest behavior and the basis for a modest, unassuming nature. However, whereas recent research has accumulated substantial evidence for the prediction that Honesty-Humility drives non-exploitative behavior, there is little conclusive evidence for the proposition that it also signals humility. We tested this conjecture in a web-based study - assessing modest behavior in terms of people's over- vs. under-representation of their actual abilities. As hypothesized, the Honesty-Humility factor scale and the Modesty facet scale of the HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised predicted the degree to which participants' self-appraisals matched their actual general mental ability in the expected direction: those low in Honesty-Humility and/or Modesty overstated their ability.
AB - Interest in the HEXACO Model of Personality has consistently grown in the past decade - with a particular focus on the newly proposed sixth basic factor: Honesty-Humility. In essence, this factor was proposed as the driving force behind cooperative, honest behavior and the basis for a modest, unassuming nature. However, whereas recent research has accumulated substantial evidence for the prediction that Honesty-Humility drives non-exploitative behavior, there is little conclusive evidence for the proposition that it also signals humility. We tested this conjecture in a web-based study - assessing modest behavior in terms of people's over- vs. under-representation of their actual abilities. As hypothesized, the Honesty-Humility factor scale and the Modesty facet scale of the HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised predicted the degree to which participants' self-appraisals matched their actual general mental ability in the expected direction: those low in Honesty-Humility and/or Modesty overstated their ability.
KW - General mental abilities
KW - HEXACO
KW - Honesty-Humility
KW - Modesty
KW - Self-appraisals
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2014.04.033
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2014.04.033
M3 - Journal article
VL - 69
SP - 12
EP - 16
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
SN - 0191-8869
ER -
ID: 188441828